Tsunami News - Earth Science News RSS Feeds from Brightsurf Science NewsEarth Science :: TsunamiTsunami News Stories, Current Tsunami News Events, Discoveries and Articleshttp://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Tsunami Tsunami News Stories Current Tsunami News Events, Discoveries and Articles Stress Buildup Precedes Large Sumatra Quakes The island of Sumatra, Indonesia, has shaken many times with powerful earthquakes since the one that wrought the infamous 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Now, scientists from the California Institute of Technology and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences are harnessing information from these and earlier quakes to determine where the next ones will likely occur, and how big they will be. (2008-05-28) Big quakes spark jolts worldwide Until 1992, when California's magnitude-7.3 Landers earthquake set off small jolts as far away as Yellowstone National Park, scientists did not believe large earthquakes sparked smaller tremors at distant locations. (2008-05-27) 1 year after Solomon Islands, scientists learn barrier to earthquakes weaker than expected On the one year anniversary of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in the Solomon Islands that killed 52 people and displaced more than 6,000, scientists are revising their understanding of the potential for similar giant earthquakes in other parts of the globe. (2008-04-03) Scientists obtain core samples from subsea fault system off Japan The third expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) completed its mission off the Kii Peninsula today. (2008-02-06) Newly discovered active fault building new Dalmatian Islands off Croatian coast A newly identified fault that runs under the Adriatic Sea is actively building more of the famously beautiful Dalmatian Islands and Dinaride Mountains of Croatia, according to a new research report. (2008-01-23) Rich nations' environmental footprints tread heavily on poor countries The environmental damage caused by rich nations disproportionately impacts poor nations and costs them more than their combined foreign debt, according to a first-ever global accounting of the dollar costs of countries' ecological footprints. (2008-01-22) Deep-ocean researchers target tsunami zone near Japan Rice University Earth scientist Dale Sawyer and colleagues last month reported the discovery of a strong variation in the tectonic stresses in a region of the Pacific Ocean notorious for generating devastating earthquakes and tsunamis in southeastern Japan. (2008-01-18) Status quo of the tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean The German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System for the Indian Ocean (GITEWS) runs on track. Main milestones like the development of the automatic data processing software SeisComP3, as well as the underwater communication for the transmission of the pressure data from the ocean floor to a warning centre are already finalised. (2007-12-21) Efficiency of satellite telecommunications for civil protection agencies Enhancing interoperability during European civil protection operations is the objective of an ESA project named Decision. In the context of this project, field trials were held in Chartres, France, focusing on satellite solutions to improve cooperation between civil protection agencies in crisis theatres - whether they occur in Europe or outside. (2007-12-19) Deep-ocean drilling researchers target earthquake and tsunami zone Researchers fresh from an eight-week scientific drilling expedition off the Pacific coast of Japan today reported their discovery of strong variation in the tectonic stresses in a region notorious for generating devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, the Nankai Trough. (2007-12-13) |
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