News tagged with seismological methods
Scientists Expose 'Buried' Fault that Caused Deadly 2003 Quake in Iran
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 05, 2009 |
5 / 5 (4) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using satellite radar data, NASA-funded scientists, including UC Riverside’s Gareth Funning, have observed for the first time the healing of subtle, natural surface scars from an earthquake ...
Search results for seismological methods
Historic Soviet nuclear test site offers insights for today's nuclear monitoring
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 17, 2008 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
0
Newly published data from the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, the Soviet Union’s primary nuclear weapons testing ground during the Cold War, can help today’s atomic detectives fine-tune their monitoring of nuclear explosions ...
New forest fire detection system prototype installed at Lake Tahoe
Dec 07, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Graham Kent, Nevada Seismological Laboratory director at the University of Nevada, Reno is leading the installation, testing and maintenance of a novel way to monitor forests fires and other environmental ...
New study cites lower rate of quakes along some subduction zones
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 04, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Most earthquakes occur along fault lines, which form boundaries between two tectonic plates. As the relative speed of the plates around a fault increases, is there a corresponding increase in the number of earthquakes produced ...
NASA GPS software to calculate quake size
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2006 |
3.8 / 5 (12) |
0
GPS software developed by NASA could be the answer to determining the scale of an earthquake.
Quake predictability still distant dream, say seismologists
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 07, 2009 |
2 / 5 (2) |
4
Claims by an Italian technician to have foretold the devastating quake which struck central Italy prompted seismologists on Tuesday to shake their heads in sadness and skepticism.
Research reveals limitations of seismic data for mapping rock units in young oceanic crust
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 30, 2007 |
4.4 / 5 (11) |
0
Researchers report that an approach used for years to understand the structure of Earth's oceanic crust is flawed and geoscientists will have reconsider the correspondence between seismic data and rock units when mapping ...
Large earthquakes may broadcast warnings, but is anyone tuning in to listen?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2007 |
4.5 / 5 (13) |
1
Like geological ninjas, earthquakes can strike without warning. But there may be a way to detect the footfalls of large earthquakes before they strike, alerting their potential victims a week or more in advance. A Stanford ...
A challenge to improve Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for structural biology
Nov 30, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- In structural biology, the only technique available to predict the three dimensional structure of large complex molecules in solution, such as proteins and DNA, is NMR spectroscopy. To catalyze improvements ...
Researchers invent new method for graphene growth
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 10, 2009 |
4.9 / 5 (22) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell research team has invented a simple way to make graphene electrical devices by growing the graphene directly onto a silicon wafer.
Blood Enzyme Could Help Realize Clean Coal
Dec 03, 2009 |
4 / 5 (5) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- An enzyme in our blood that enables our lungs to exhale carbon dioxide could be the key to isolating carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants in order to store them safely underground. A ...
List of search results for seismological methods
