Items tagged with earthquake

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Indonesian Earthquake to Strike Soon Again Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 - 18:30:31 - Anuradha Menon The earthquake which devastated the city of Padang in Sumatra, Indonesia, this week, killing more than 1100 people, may have been only a hint of... read more

Were The Pacific Earthquakes Connected? Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 - 10:09:08 - Anuradha Menon In the past four days there've been at least five substantial earthquakes—and a tsunami—in the same general region, the tectonically rambunctious... read more

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... read more

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... read more

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... read more

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... read more

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... read more

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... read more

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... read more

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