News tagged with major earthquakes
China environmental phenomena monitored from space
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Jul 06, 2009 |
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China is in a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground deformation across major continental faults ...
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Global Earthquake Fatalities Expected To Rise This Century, Says CU-Boulder Geologist
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May 19, 2008 |
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Earthquake expert and geological sciences Professor Roger Bilham of the University of Colorado at Boulder says unprecedented human fatalities from earthquakes will occur around the globe in the coming century unless significant ...
Ancient Architecture Makes Italian Earthquakes Deadly, Professor Says
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Apr 06, 2009 |
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A University of Colorado at Boulder professor says the powerful earthquake that knocked down buildings and killed at least 130 people in and around the medieval city of L'Aquila in Italy April 6 is a continuation of violent ...
Killer earthquakes shake scientific thought
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Oct 11, 2009 |
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A sudden cluster of massive earthquakes which has shaken Asia-Pacific communities and likely left thousands dead has also jolted some scientists, who are starting to question conventional thought.
Predicting the Timing of Major Earthquakes
Dec 01, 2006 |
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Forecasting when a major earthquake will erupt -- within a window of two to three years -- could be possible, based on mathematical studies by researchers at UC Davis, Boston University and the University of Western Ontario, ...
Swarm of Yellowstone earthquakes doesn't pose risk, scientists say
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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When you have 400 earthquakes on top of one of the largest supervolcanoes on Earth, people pay attention.
CSI: Pisco, Peru -- Study uncovers tectonic events behind earthquake
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Apr 10, 2009 |
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A magnitude 8.0. earthquake destroyed 90 percent of the city of Pisco, Peru on August 16, 2007. The event killed 595 people, while another 318 were missing. Tsunami waves were observed locally, off the shore ...
New hazard estimates could downplay quake dangers
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Apr 16, 2008 |
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The dangers posed by a major earthquake in the New Madrid and Charleston, South Carolina zones in the Midwestern and Southern parts of the United States may be noticeably lower than current estimates if seismologists adjust ...
Earthquake theory stretched in Central Asia study
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Feb 25, 2008 |
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The entrenched political instability in Pakistan and Afghanistan is of grave concern to many in the West – but now geologists at ANU have suggested a new cause for the seismic instability that regularly rocks the region.
Deep creep means milder, more frequent earthquakes along Southern California's San Jacinto fault
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Nov 08, 2009 |
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With an average of four mini-earthquakes per day, Southern California's San Jacinto fault constantly adjusts to make it a less likely candidate for a major earthquake than its quiet neighbor to the east, the ...
New Madrid fault system may be shutting down
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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.
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