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Scientists Expose 'Buried' Fault that Caused Deadly 2003 Quake in Iran
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using satellite radar data, NASA-funded scientists, including UC Riverside’s Gareth Funning, have observed for the first time the healing of subtle, natural surface scars from an earthquake ...
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Locations of strain, slip identified in major earthquake fault
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Deep-sea drilling into one of the most active earthquake zones on the planet is providing the first direct look at the geophysical fault properties underlying some of the world's largest earthquakes and tsunamis.
New way to monitor faults may help predict earthquakes
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Oct 01, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found a way to monitor the strength of geologic faults deep in the Earth. This finding could prove to be a boon for earthquake prediction by pinpointing those faults that are likely ...
New study cites lower rate of quakes along some subduction zones
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Dec 04, 2009 |
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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 ...
Major quakes can weaken seismic faults far away, scientists say
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- U.S. seismologists have found evidence that the massive 2004 earthquake that triggered killer tsunamis throughout the Indian Ocean weakened at least a portion of California's famed San Andreas ...
MESSENGER discovers an unusual impact basin on Mercury
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 30, 2009 |
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A previously unknown, large impact basin has been discovered by the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft during its second flyby of Mercury in October 2008. The impact basin, ...
Using new technique, scientists find 11 times more aftershocks for 2004 quake
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Nov 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a technique normally used for detecting weak tremor, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered that the 2004 magnitude 6 earthquake along the Parkfield section of the San Andreas ...
Biggest recorded earthquake was brewing for four centuries
Oct 07, 2005 |
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The earthquake that rocked Chile in 1960 - at magnitude 9.5, the biggest ever recorded - was preceded by almost 400 years of accumulating stress, according to studies of the region's buried soils and sand. Strain had been ...
Florida turtle eggs may have been buried
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May 23, 2006 |
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Construction crews may have accidentally buried a protected sea-turtle nest at Florida's New Smyrna Beach because biologists might not have marked it.
New study sheds light on earthquake hazard along San Andreas Fault
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Jul 27, 2009 |
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New research by a team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) offers new insight into the San Andreas Fault as it extends beneath Southern ...
Sichuan quake was once-in-4,000-year event: scientists
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Sep 27, 2009 |
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People who were killed, injured or bereaved in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake had the cruel misfortune to be victims of an event that probably occurs just once in four millennia, seismologists said on Sunday.
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