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Native Lore Tells The Tale: There's Been A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
July 12, 2005 — Stories of two-headed serpents and epic battles between Thunderbird and Whale, common among Northwest native peoples, have their root in the region's seismic history. New research led by a University ... > full story -
MIT Team Designs Tsunami-Resistant Houses
June 8, 2005 — Using high-tech engineering principles, an MIT/Harvard team has developed a low-tech solution to the problem of how to build homes in tsunami-prone areas. The team recently produced an architectural ... > full story -
Deep-Sea Tremors May Provide Early Warning System For Larger Earthquakes
May 28, 2005 — Predicting when large earthquakes might occur may be a step closer to reality, thanks to a new study of undersea earthquakes in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The study, reported in today's Nature, is ... > full story -
Analysis Of The Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake Reveals Longest Fault Rupture Ever
May 27, 2005 — Three papers published in the May 20 issue of the journal Science by an international group of seismologists provide a comprehensive scientific analysis of the December 2004 and March 2005 ... > full story -
New Method For Imaging Dec. 26 Indian Ocean Earthquake Yields Unprecedented Results
May 26, 2005 — Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD and their colleagues at UCLA have developed a new method for imaging how the earth ruptured during the massive Dec. 26 Indian Ocean ... > full story -
Student Plumbs Disaster Relief Logistics
May 12, 2005 — The devastation caused by last December's tsunami prompted an unprecedented outpouring of global aid that presented disaster relief providers with innumerable logistical challenges. Now an MIT ... > full story -
South Asia Disaster Shows Tsunamis Are An Ongoing Threat To Humans
May 2, 2005 — The tsunami that devastated south Asia coastlines and killed more than 200,000 people last December is a powerful reminder of just how dangerous those waves can be to humans, and scientists should ... > full story -
Suite Of Instruments Helps Researchers Calculate 3,000-Year Cycle For Large Quake
May 2, 2005 — The deep, cobalt-blue waters of Lake Tahoe can mean different things to different people. For scientists, the lake’s depth and rich color are an impediment to studying several important ... > full story -
Post-Tsunami Thailand Yields Lessons For Coastal Construction
March 26, 2005 — An inspection of Thai villages and ports struck by tsunami waves has uncovered some engineering lessons that might reduce casualties and destruction in future oceanic upheavals, a Johns Hopkins ... > full story -
Researchers Go Into Action After Tsunami
March 25, 2005 — Funded by grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), teams from the University of Cambridge, the University of Newcastle, and University College London have looked at ... > full story
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