News tagged with fault
Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang
Nov 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.
Earthquakes actually aftershocks of 19th century quakes
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When small earthquakes shake the central U.S., citizens often fear the rumbles are signs a big earthquake is coming. Fortunately, new research instead shows that most of these earthquakes ...
Large Hadron Collider restart delayed till October
Jun 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher will likely be fired up again in October after scientists have carried out tests and put in place further safety measures to prevent a repeat of the faults that sidelined ...
Large Hadron Collider sends beams in 2 directions
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher made another leap forward Monday by circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time in the $10 billion machine after more than a year of repairs, ...
New analysis of earthquake zone raises questions
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 26, 2008 |
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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 ...
From Terabytes to Petabytes: Computer Scientists Develop New Hybrid Database System
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As the amounts of data being stored by databases around the world enters the realm of the petabyte (the amount of data stored in a mile-high stack of CD-ROM disks), efficient data management is becoming more ...
Tremors on southern San Andreas Fault may mean increased quake risk
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 09, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Major quakes can weaken seismic faults far away, scientists say
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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 ...
Mars: Chaotic terrain between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express flew over the boundary between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae and imaged the region, acquiring spectacular views of the chaotic terrain in the area.
New Madrid fault system may be shutting down
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The New Madrid fault system does not behave as earthquake hazard models assume and may be in the process of shutting down, a new study shows.
Satellite data look behind the scenes of deadly earthquake
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Using satellite radar data and GPS measurements, Chinese researchers have explained the exceptional geological events leading to the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake that killed nearly 90 000 people in China's Sichuan ...
First complete image created of Himalayan fault, subduction zone
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 11, 2009 |
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An international team of researchers has created the most complete seismic image of the Earth's crust and upper mantle beneath the rugged Himalaya Mountains, in the process discovering some unusual geologic ...
Mud pots signal possible extension of San Andreas Fault
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 29, 2008 |
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A linear string of mud pots and mud volcanoes suggest surface evidence for a southern extension of the San Andreas Fault that runs through the Salton Sea, according to a paper published in the August issue of the Bulletin of ...
Great Indian Ocean earthquake of 2004 set off tremors in San Andreas fault
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2008 |
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In the last few years there has been a growing number of documented cases in which large earthquakes set off unfelt tremors in earthquake faults hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of miles away.
Trapped water cause of regular tremors under Vancouver Island
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 31, 2008 |
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University of British Columbia researchers are offering the first compelling evidence to explain regular tremors under Vancouver Island.
