News tagged with fault
Related topics: earthquake
Japan quake loaded stress on fault closer to Tokyo
The recent monster quake that hit northeastern Japan altered the earth's surface, geologists say, loading stress onto a different segment of the fault line much closer to Tokyo.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2011 |
5 / 5 (2) |
2
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 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2011 |
4.5 / 5 (2) |
0
Tokyo at risk from massive aftershock, expert says (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tokyo may be at serious risk from a massive aftershock and associated tsunami as a result of the devastating March 11 earthquake near Sendai, Japan, according to UC Davis seismologist John Rundle.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 16, 2011 |
4.2 / 5 (6) |
3
|
WHOI experts stress lessons From Japan earthquake
While Japan's 8.9-magnitude earthquake and accompanying tsunami represent a devastating natural disaster for the country's residents, scientists should also seize upon the massive temblor as an important learning tool for ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 14, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
New Zealand earthquake damage illustrates risks posed by shallow crustal faults
The terribly destructive earthquake that just hit Christchurch, New Zealand, was only a moderate 6.3 magnitude, but had certain characteristics that offer an important lesson to cities up and down the West Coast of North ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2011 |
5 / 5 (7) |
6
|
Earthquake's early warning signals detected for the first time
The 1999 Izmit earthquake in Turkey is one of the best recorded in the world. For the first time, researchers from CNRS, Kandilli Observatory (Istanbul) and the Tubitak research center observed that the earthquake was preceded ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 18, 2011 |
4.6 / 5 (9) |
3
Lake-effect theory sinks, but quake timing questions go on
(PhysOrg.com) -- A chronology of 1,000 years of earthquakes at the southern end of the San Andreas Fault nixes the idea that lake changes in the now-dry region caused past quakes. However, researchers say, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 10, 2011 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
|
Otago geologists help probe Alpine Fault's secrets
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Otago geologists are part of an ambitious project currently drilling two boreholes into New Zealand’s Alpine Fault to learn more about how large faults evolve and how they ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 27, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
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.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 09, 2010 |
not rated yet |
1
'M8' earthquake simulation breaks computational records, promises better quake models
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers has presented the world's most advanced earthquake shaking simulation at the Supercomputing 2010 (SC10) conference held this week in New Orleans. The research was selected ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 22, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
Light and dark in the Phoenix Lake
(PhysOrg.com) -- They say you can't judge a book by its cover but, with planets, first impressions do count. New images show where complex fault lines in Mars’ Phoenicis Lacus region have resulted in ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2010 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Purdue-led research team finds Haiti quake caused by unknown fault
Researchers found a previously unmapped fault was responsible for the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti and that the originally blamed fault remains ready to produce a large earthquake.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2010 |
5 / 5 (1) |
3
|
Haiti fault capable of another big quake: study
The January 12 earthquake in Haiti failed to release all the tension in a notorious seismic fault, leaving its capital exposed to the risk of another seismic disaster, US scientists reported Sunday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 24, 2010 |
3.7 / 5 (3) |
0
NASA study of Haiti quake yields surprising results
(PhysOrg.com) -- The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that caused more than 200,000 casualties and devastated Haiti's economy in January resulted not from the Enriquillo fault, as previously believed, but from slip ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 14, 2010 |
4.9 / 5 (10) |
0
|
Scientists say the Big One could be even bigger
The Big One predicted for the San Andreas fault could end up being bigger than earthquake experts previously thought.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 11, 2010 |
4.9 / 5 (22) |
11
