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Caribbean At Risk Of Tsunami, Disaster Experts Warn
April 21, 2009 — Up to 30,000 residents and tourists could be under threat from a newly discovered tsunami risk in the Caribbean, according to experts in disaster risk management. The heavily populated coast of ... > full story -
Mangrove Forests Save Lives In Storms, Study Of 1999 Super Cyclone Finds
April 14, 2009 — A new study of storm-related deaths from a super cyclone that hit the eastern coast of India in 1999 finds that villages shielded from the storm surge by mangrove forests experienced significantly ... > full story -
Why Earthquake Waves Spread Unevenly
April 11, 2009 — Propagation of earthquake waves within the Earth is not uniform. Experiments indicate that the velocity of shear waves in Earth's lower mantle between 660 and 2900 km depth is strongly dependent on ... > full story -
Tectonic Events Behind Earthquake That Killed 595 In Peru
April 10, 2009 — Scientists have analyzed data on the earthquake in Pisco, Peru and its impact on regional topography. Using InSAR-based geodetic data and teleseismic data, the scientists were able to use satellite ... > full story -
Solomon Islands Earthquake Sheds Light On Enhanced Tsunami Risk
April 9, 2009 — The 2007 Solomon Island earthquake may point to previously unknown increased earthquake and tsunami risks because of the unusual tectonic plate geography and the sudden change in direction of the ... > full story -
Mathematicians Provide New Insight Into Tsunamis
April 1, 2009 — A new mathematical formula that could be used to give advance warning of where a tsunami is likely to hit and how destructive it will be has been worked out by scientists at Newcastle University. The ... > full story -
Are Women More Generous? New Study Sheds Light On Donation Behavior
February 23, 2009 — Why would women give more to the victims of Hurricane Katrina than to the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami? A new study sheds light onto the way gender and moral identity affect ... > full story -
Locations Of Strain, Slip Identified In Major Earthquake Fault
February 15, 2009 — Deep-sea drilling into one of the most active earthquake zones on the planet is providing the first direct look at the geophysical fault properties underlying some of the world's largest earthquakes ... > full story -
New Monitoring Stations Detect 'Silent Earthquakes' In Costa Rica
February 15, 2009 — After installing an extensive network of monitoring stations in Costa Rica, researchers have detected slow slip events (also known as "silent earthquakes") along a major fault zone beneath the Nicoya ... > full story -
Mega-Earthquake Risk For West Coast, US And Canada? Seismic Slip Linked To Tremor, With Implications For Subduction Zone
January 29, 2009 — New evidence suggests that tectonic plate slippage and nonvolcanic tremor near the Cascadia subduction zone both are signs of processes taking place 25 miles deep at the interface of the Juan de Fuca ... > full story
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