News tagged with active faults
Haiti should brace for more devastating quakes: study
The 2010 earthquake that devastated southern Haiti may have opened a new era of seismic activity and residents should brace for more massive temblors, said a US study on Thursday.
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Jan 26, 2012 |
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After quakes, owner to lower pressure in Ohio well
(AP) -- The owner of a northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling plans to remove material from it to help lower its inner pressure following 11 minor earthquakes.
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Expert: Wastewater well in Ohio triggered quakes
A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor quakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday.
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Jan 03, 2012 |
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Earthquakes: Water as a lubricant
Geophysicists from Potsdam (Germany) have established a mode of action that can explain the irregular distribution of strong earthquakes at the San Andreas Fault in California. As the science magazine Nature reports in its ...
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Nov 30, 2011 |
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Fault-finding coral reefs can predict the site of coming earthquakes
In the wake of the devastating loss of life in Japan, the urgent question is where the next big earthquake will hit. To answer it, geologist Prof. Zvi Ben-Avraham and his doctoral student Gal Hartman of Tel ...
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Mar 21, 2011 |
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Project will monitor tremor activity beneath southern San Andreas Fault
The Berkeley Seismological Laboratory will begin early next year to install earthquake detectors on the southern San Andreas Fault near the town of Cholame to study mysterious tremors discovered beneath the area.
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Dec 09, 2010 |
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New study cites lower rate of quakes along some subduction zones
Most earthquakes occur along fault lines, which form boundaries between two tectonic plates. As the relative speed of the plates around a fault increases, is there a corresponding increase in the number of earthquakes produced ...
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Dec 04, 2009 |
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Small faults in Southeast Spain reduce earthquake risk of larger ones
A team of Spanish scientists, studying recent, active deformations in the Baetic mountain range, have shown that the activity of smaller tectonic structures close to larger faults in the south east of the ...
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Nov 25, 2009 |
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