News tagged with seismic instruments
Seismic recordings of rockfall a step toward early-warning system in Yosemite
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May 04, 2009 |
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Hardly anyone noticed the ruckus when Yosemite Valley's largest rockfall in two decades thundered down near Half Dome before sunrise one March morning -- but scientists will hear all about it soon.
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New way to track quakes
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Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Edinburgh scientists have developed a new technique to monitor movements beneath the Earth's surface.
Study reveals seismic shift in methods used to track earthquakes
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Sep 02, 2009 |
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The team, led by scientists from the University of Edinburgh, says that the new method, which uses data collected from earthquakes, potentially allows the Earth's seismic activity to be mapped more comprehensively.
Great Indian Ocean earthquake of 2004 set off tremors in San Andreas fault
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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.
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 ...
Early earthquake warning: New tools show promise
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Jul 09, 2008 |
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Using remarkably sensitive new instruments, seismologists have detected minute geological changes that preceded small earthquakes along California's famed San Andreas Fault by as much as 10 hours.
New monitoring stations detect 'silent earthquakes' in Costa Rica
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Feb 15, 2009 |
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After installing an extensive network of monitoring stations in Costa Rica, researchers have detected slow slip events (also known as "silent earthquakes") along a major fault zone beneath the Nicoya Peninsula. These findings ...
Seismic noise unearths lost hurricanes
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Oct 20, 2009 |
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Seismologists have found a new way to piece together the history of hurricanes in the North Atlantic—by looking back through records of the planet's seismic noise. It's an entirely new way to tap into the ...
It came from outer space -- and likely disintegrated over northeastern Oregon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 21, 2008 |
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People in at least four states and a Canadian province saw a bright fireball streaking across the Pacific Northwest sky in the early hours Tuesday but, contrary to some reports, there was no collision with the ground, University ...
Oceanic crust formation is dynamic after all
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Nov 25, 2009 |
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Imagine the Earth's crust as the planet's skin: Some areas are old and wrinkled while others have a fresher, more youthful sheen, as if they had been regularly lathered with lotion.
Scientists cable seafloor seismometer into California's earthquake network
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Mar 19, 2009 |
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A newly-laid, 32-mile underwater cable finally links the state's only seafloor seismic station with the University of California, Berkeley's seismic network, merging real-time data from west of the San Andreas fault with ...
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