Save
Email
Print
Share
RSSBrowse News Stories
21 to 30 of 272 stories
view headlines only
-
Self-Powered Sensors to Monitor Nuclear Fuel Rod Status
October 23, 2012 — Japan's Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear disaster that occurred in 2011 -- a result of the strongest earthquake on record in the country and the powerful tsunami waves it triggered -- underscored the need ... > full story -
Large 2012 Earthquake Triggered Temblors Worldwide for Nearly a Week
September 26, 2012 — This year's largest earthquake, a magnitude 8.6 temblor on April 11 centered in the East Indian Ocean off Sumatra, did little damage, but it triggered quakes around the world for at least a week, ... > full storyMore: -
Magnitude-8.7 Quake Was Part of Crustal Plate Breakup
September 26, 2012 — Seismologists have known for years that the Indo-Australian plate of Earth's crust is slowly breaking apart, but they saw it in action last April when at least four faults broke in a magnitude-8.7 ... > full storyMore: -
Twenty-Three Nuclear Power Plants Found to Be in Tsunami Risk Areas
September 21, 2012 — Tsunamis are synonymous with the destruction of cities, and homes and since the Japanese coast was devastated in March 2011 we now know that they cause nuclear disaster, endanger the safety of the ... > full story -
Did a 'Forgotten' Meteor Have a Deadly, Icy Double-Punch?
September 19, 2012 — When a huge meteor collided with Earth about 2.5 million years ago and fell into the southern Pacific Ocean it not only could have generated a massive tsunami but also may have plunged the world into ... > full story -
Mathematicians Show How Shallow Water May Help Explain Tsunami Power
September 18, 2012 — While wave watching is a favorite pastime of beach-goers, few notice what is happening in the shallowest water. A closer look by two applied mathematicians has led to the discovery of interacting X- ... > full story -
Exploration Drilling to Monitor Earthquakes in the Istanbul Area
September 7, 2012 — Today the drilling starts for a seismic monitoring network on the Marmara Sea near Istanbul. Specially designed seismic sensors in eight boreholes on the outskirts of Istanbul and around the eastern ... > full story -
Smoking and Natural Disasters: Christchurch Residents Increase Tobacco Consumption Post-Earthquake
September 4, 2012 — The prevalence of smoking in Christchurch, New Zealand, increased following the 2010 earthquake, according to a new ... > full story -
Earthquake Hazards Map Study Finds Deadly Flaws
August 31, 2012 — Three of the largest and deadliest earthquakes in recent history occurred where earthquake hazard maps didn't predict massive quakes. Scientists have recently studied the reasons for the maps' ... > full story -
Short And Mid-Term Cardiovascular Effects of Japan's 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami: Incidence Rises With the Seismic Peak
August 27, 2012 — The Japanese earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, which hit the north-east coast of Japan with a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale, was one of the largest ocean-trench earthquakes ever ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 137,088
more 