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Earthquake Current Events | Earthquake News | 8 Earthquake current events and Earthquake news stories from Brightsurf. Find the latest Earthquake research, discoveries and most popular current news and events. | 8 |
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Scientists return to Haiti to assess possibility of another major quake
A team funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) is returning to Haiti this week to investigate the cause of the January 12, magnitude 7 earthquake there. View More (2010-01-27)
Faulty Behavior - New earthquake fault models show that "stable" zones may contribute to the generation of massive earthquakes
In an earthquake, ground motion is the result of waves emitted when the two sides of a fault move-or slip-rapidly past each other, with an average relative speed of about three feet per second. View More (2013-01-10)
Study finds correlation between injection wells and small earthquakes
Most earthquakes in the Barnett Shale region of north Texas occur within a few miles of one or more injection wells used to dispose of wastes associated with petroleum production such as hydraulic fracturing fluids, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin. View More (2012-08-07)
'Array of arrays' coaxing secrets from unfelt seismic tremor events
Every 15 months or so, an unfelt earthquake occurs in western Washington and travels northward to Canada's Vancouver Island. The episode typically releases as much energy as a magnitude 6.5 earthquake, but it does so gradually over a month. View More (2010-12-14)
Vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder runs in families, study shows
Earthquakes have aftershocks - not just the geological kind but the mental kind as well. Just like veterans of war, earthquake survivors can experience post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety. View More (2008-12-22)
Nevada Seismological Laboratory ranks top 10 states for earthquake activity
For many years, John Anderson, director of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno, has been telling citizens, reporters and other scientists from throughout the world that in terms of seismic activity in the 50 states, Nevada ranked as the third most active. View More (2006-11-21)
Scripps-Led Study Sheds Light on Earthquake Hazard Along San Andreas Fault
New research by a team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) offers new insight into the San Andreas Fault as it extends beneath Southern California's Salton Sea. View More (2009-07-28)
Getting ready for the 'big one,' researchers make most detailed survey ever of San Adreas Fault
Researchers have completed the most meticulous survey ever made of the San Andreas Fault, and they've found detailed features that nobody could have seen before. View More (2005-12-07)
Caltech researchers release first large observational study of 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake
When the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami struck off the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, they caused widespread destruction and death. Using observations from a dense regional geodetic network (allowing measurements of earth movement to be gathered from GPS satellite data), globally distributed broadband seismographic networks, and open-ocean tsunami data,... View More (2011-05-20)
New data shows El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake was simple on surface, complicated at depth
Like scars that remain on the skin long after a wound has healed, earthquake fault lines can be traced on Earth's surface long after their initial rupture. Typically, this line of intersection between the area where the fault slips and the ground is more complicated at the surface than at depth. View More (2011-08-12)
Scientists explain source of mysterious tremors emanating from fault zones
Tiny tremors and temblors recently discovered in fault zones from California to Japan are generated by slow-moving earthquakes that may foreshadow catastrophic seismic events, according to scientists at Stanford University and the University of Tokyo. View More (2007-03-15)
Rapid response science missions assess potential for another major Haiti earthquake
To help assess the potential threat of more large earthquakes in Haiti and nearby areas, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Geophysics are co-leading three expeditions to the country with colleagues from Purdue University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the U.S. Geological Survey and five other institutions. View More (2010-02-24)
Japanese Tsunami Underscores Need for Elder Disaster Preparedness
The oldest segment of Japan's population will likely be the hardest hit as a result of the recent earthquake and subsequent tsunami, based on data from previous catastrophic events. Approximately 23 percent of Japanese citizens currently are age 65 and above. View More (2011-03-21)
Himalayas and Pacific Northwest could experience major earthquakes, Stanford geophysicists say
Stanford geophysicists are well represented at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union this week in San Francisco. View More (2012-12-05)
Seismologist's project uses public's laptops to monitor and predict earthquakes
A simple idea for monitoring earthquakes that Elizabeth Cochran, a seismologist at UC Riverside, came up with in 2006 is being realized today, and has the potential to save lives in case an earthquake strikes. View More (2008-04-03)
GPS on commercial ships could improve tsunami warnings
Commercial ships travel across most of the globe and could provide better warnings for potentially deadly tsunamis, according to a study published May 5 by scientists at the University of Hawaii - Manoa (UHM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. View More (2012-05-07)
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 that shook the eastern United States in 1811 and 1812. View More (2010-08-02)
Disasters prompt older children to be more giving, younger children to be more selfish
A natural disaster can bring out the best in older children, prompting 9-year-olds to be more willing to share, while 6-year-olds become more selfish. View More (2013-01-31)
Earthquake faults lost and found @ the London `Catastrophes` conference
Three great earthquakes during the winter of 1811-1812 struck eastern North America, causing widespread destruction in the northern Mississippi river valley, and even causing the Mississippi River to divert. Though the estimated magnitudes of the earthquakes are between 7 and 8+, no definitive surface rupture has ever been identified. Instead, the seismic zone is delineated by microseismicity... View More (2002-08-17)
Researchers show how far South American cities moved in quake
The massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the west coast of Chile last month moved the entire city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west, and shifted other parts of South America as far apart as the Falkland Islands and Fortaleza, Brazil. View More (2010-03-09)
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