News tagged with seismic wave
Sichuan quake was once-in-4,000-year event: scientists
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Sep 27, 2009 |
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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.
Taiwan scientist develops earthquake alarm
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Sep 16, 2009 |
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A Taiwanese scientist has developed an earthquake alarm that could give people a crucial 15-second warning in case of a tremor, one of his team said Wednesday.
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.
Improved seismology tools can detect and locate low-yield nuclear explosions
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Aug 31, 2009 |
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is leading a joint project with Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories, as well as the Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC) and Quantum Technology Sciences, ...
Lamont-Doherty Seismologists Show Latest Korean Blast Larger Than 2006 Nuclear Test
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May 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Columbia seismologists who have intensively studied North Korea’s nuclear testing efforts say Monday’s blast was certainly a nuclear bomb, roughly five times larger than the country’s first ...
Fingerprinting slow earthquakes (w/Podcast)
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Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The most powerful earthquakes happen at the junction of two converging tectonic plates, where one plate is sliding (or subducting) beneath the other. Now a team of researchers, led by Teh-Ru ...
Scientists develop new approach to mine disasters
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Mar 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah scientists devised a new way to find miners trapped by cave-ins. The method involves installing iron plates and sledgehammers at regular intervals inside mines, and sensitive ...
Team sets records in simulating seismic wave propagation across the Earth
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Nov 25, 2008 |
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A team led by researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego has successfully completed record-setting, petascale-level simulations of the earth's inner structure, paving the way for seismologists ...
