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Microbes Trap Massive Amounts of Carbon

Apr. 26, 2021 — A new study finds a new microbial ecosystem thriving in violent ...

High School Junior's Consumer Seismometer Delivers Low-Cost Earthquake Early Warning

Apr. 23, 2021 — A Southern California high school junior has built a low-cost seismometer device that delivers earthquake early warnings for homes and businesses. ...

Energy Unleashed by Submarine Volcanoes Could Power a Continent

Apr. 21, 2021 — Volcanic eruptions deep in our oceans are capable of extremely powerful releases of energy, at a rate high enough to power the whole of the United States, according to new ...

Study Reveals the Workings of Nature's Own Earthquake Blocker

Apr. 19, 2021 — A new study finds a naturally occurring 'earthquake gate' that decides which earthquakes are allowed to grow into magnitude 8 or greater. Sometimes, the 'gate' stops earthquakes in the magnitude 7 ...

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Seismicity on Mars Full of Surprises, in First Continuous Year of Data

Apr. 23, 2021 — The SEIS seismometer package from the Mars InSight lander has collected its first continuous Martian year of data, revealing some surprises among the more than 500 marsquakes detected so ...

Red Sea Is No Longer a Baby Ocean

Apr. 23, 2021 — The Red Sea is a fascinating and still puzzling area of investigation for geoscientists. Controversial questions include its age and whether it represents a special case in ocean basin formation or ...

Radar Satellites Can Better Protect Against Bushfires and Floods

Apr. 23, 2021 — New research has revealed how radar satellites can improve the ability to detect, monitor, prepare for and withstand natural disasters in Australia including bushfires, floods and ...

3D Printed Models Provide Clearer Understanding of Ground Motion

Apr. 22, 2021 — It seems like a smooth slab of stainless steel, but look a little closer, and you'll see a simplified cross-section of the Los Angeles sedimentary basin. Researchers are printing 3D models like the ...

DeepShake Uses Machine Learning to Rapidly Estimate Earthquake Shaking Intensity

Apr. 23, 2021 — A deep spatiotemporal neural network trained on more than 36,000 earthquakes offers a new way of quickly predicting ground shaking intensity once an ...

California's Wildfire Season Has Lengthened, and Its Peak Is Now Earlier in the Year

Apr. 22, 2021 — Researchers have analyzed CALFIRE wildfire statistics from 2000 to 2019, comparing them with data from 1920 to 1999, to learn that the annual burn ...

Aerial Photos Uncover an Invisible Fault in Chinese City

Apr. 21, 2021 — Decades-old aerial photos of Yudong District, Datong City in Shanxi Province, Northern China have helped researchers in their search for a fault hidden underneath the city's buildings and cement ...

Can Magnitude 4 Earthquake Rates Be Used to Forecast Large Earthquake Events?

Apr. 19, 2021 — Ebel looked for the California faults that had magnitude 4 or larger earthquakes occurring at a rate higher than 0.5 earthquakes per year from 1997 ...

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Coral Reefs Prevent More Than $5.3 Billion in Potential Flood Damage for U.S. Property Owners, Study Finds

Apr. 15, 2021 — Coral reefs provide many services to coastal communities, including critical protection from flood damage. A new study ...

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Hidden Magma Pools Pose Eruption Risks That We Can't Yet Detect

Apr. 16, 2021 — Volcanologists' ability to estimate eruption risks is largely reliant on knowing where pools of magma are stored, deep in the Earth's crust. But what happens if the magma ...