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Haiti should brace for more devastating quakes: study

The 2010 earthquake that devastated southern Haiti may have opened a new era of seismic activity and residents should brace for more massive temblors, said a US study on Thursday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Big quakes no more likely than in past: study

Massive earthquakes are no more likely today than they were a century ago, despite an apparent rise of the devastating temblors in recent years, US researchers said on Monday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 6

US, Mexico to upgrade border quake system

(AP) -- The U.S. and Mexico will upgrade an earthquake monitoring system along the border between California and Baja California in order to better deal with temblors such as last year's magnitude-7.2 shock and to identify ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Trial opens against scientists for Italy quake

Seven scientists and other experts went on trial on manslaughter charges Tuesday for allegedly failing to sufficiently warn residents before a devastating earthquake that killed more than 300 people in central ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 10

UCLA researchers shake model levee, for peat's sake

The earth rippled and squirmed on this Delta island Monday. It did not yawn open, but did reignite a debate about the seismic safety of levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

East vs. West quakes: Way different creatures

(AP) -- The East Coast doesn't get earthquakes often but when they do strike, there's a whole lot more shaking going on. The ground in the East is older, colder and more intact than the West Coast or the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Jaded West Coast chuckles over East Coast quake

Soon after the lunch plates stopped rattling and books stopped thumping to the floor, shaken easterners could hear another sound from Tuesday's magnitude-5.8 quake: snickering emanating from the opposite side ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Time to shift view of seismic risk - experts

Knowledge of seismic risk is badly skewed in favour of earthquakes that occur on plate boundaries, such as the March 11 temblor that hit northeast Japan, rather than those that strike deep inland, a pair of ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 22, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Japan quake loaded stress on fault closer to Tokyo

The recent monster quake that hit northeastern Japan altered the earth's surface, geologists say, loading stress onto a different segment of the fault line much closer to Tokyo.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Strong quake jolts Chile; magnitude 6.8

(AP) -- A magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck central Chile Friday, centered in almost exactly the same spot where last year's magnitude-8.8 quake spawned a tsunami and devastated coastal communities.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New theory of why midcontinent faults produce earthquakes

A new theory developed at Purdue University may solve the mystery of why the New Madrid fault, which lies in the middle of the continent and not along a tectonic plate boundary, produces large earthquakes such as the ones ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

There's a hole in this possible earthquake pattern

As University of California at Davis physicist and geologist John Rundle ponders the map of recent California earthquakes, he sees visions of a doughnut even Homer J. Simpson wouldn't like.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 22, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (13) | comments 3

Earthquake simulation shows off the potential for safer bridges (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- With a series of computer-controlled earthquakes, simulating some of the most devastating in recent memory, Berkeley engineers Wednesday showed off new technology designed to keep bridges not just from collapsing ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

After Haiti, Worries About Other Big Quakes

In the last several days, while the attention of the world has been focused on the human toll of Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti, scientists have begun to look at the quake's geological toll. What is the danger ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

USGS monitoring Twitter for earthquake details

(AP) -- OMG! Earthquake!

Technology / Internet

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0