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Tsunami Forecast in Real Time

Friday, July 17th, 2009 - 12:00:25 - Anuradha Menon

A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit the southwest coast of New Zealand on 15 July has given scientists a unique opportunity to show off...

Typhoons Take Pressure Off Earthquake Zones

Monday, June 15th, 2009 - 11:55:59 - Ehud Rattner

Can storms prevent nasty earthquakes? That's the suggestion of study showing that typhoons can trigger benign, "slow" quakes that ease the stress...

New Technique Braces Buildings against Earthquakes
Friday, May 15th, 2009
Researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan have developed a new method for bracing high rise concrete...

How Earth Moved During Italy Quake

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 - 14:03:07 - Anuradha Menon

Studying satellite radar data from ESA’s Envisat and the Italian Space Agency’s COSMO-SkyMed, scientists have begun analyzing the movement of Earth...

MIT Shows China Quake was a Rare Event

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 - 20:27:27 - Anuradha Menon

A new analysis of the setting for last month's devastating earthquake in China by a team of geoscientists at MIT shows that the quake resulted from...

Japan's Monitoring System Failed Three Times

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 - 08:12:26 - Ehud Rattner

Japan's earth quake monitoring system has failed in its first three challenges since its introduction last year. Earthquakes that shake the ground...

Antarctic Ice Stream Radiating Seismically

Friday, June 6th, 2008 - 16:24:06 - Ehud Rattner

Slow and cold – but very powerful. That's the quake that shakes the West Antarctic ice shelf twice a day. The massive tremors, which according to...

Magma Has a Cracking Time

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 - 08:23:01 - Ehud Rattner

Magma erupting out of volcanoes can fracture and crack even though it is a liquid. This odd-sounding phenomenon — the ‘snapping’ of a flowing mass of...

Heavy Rain Can Trigger Earthquakes

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 - 18:32:46 - Ehud Rattner

Huge downpours of rain can trigger earthquakes in landscapes riddled with caves and channels by increasing pressure within underlying rock, suggests...

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