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Research gives glimpse of tectonic history on Puget Sound-region fault zones

Oct 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research on the Kitsap Peninsula, at the west edge of Washington state's Puget Sound, finds evidence that land was raised at least 6 feet by ancient earthquakes.

Residents search among the rubble of a collapsed building in Dujiangyan southwest China Sichuan province

Sichuan quake was once-in-4,000-year event: scientists

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Sep 27, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 3

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.

Tremors on southern San Andreas Fault may mean increased quake risk

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jul 09, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (11) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Increases in mysterious underground tremors observed in several active earthquake fault zones around the world could signal a build-up of stress at locked segments of the faults and presumably ...

Scientists Expose 'Buried' Fault that Caused Deadly 2003 Quake in Iran

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Mar 05, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

(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 ...

Locations of strain, slip identified in major earthquake fault

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Feb 15, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

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 analysis of earthquake zone raises questions

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Aug 26, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (11) | 0

Oregon State University scientists have completed a new analysis of an earthquake fault line that extends some 200 miles off the southern and central Oregon coast that they say is more active than the San Andreas Fault in ...