Earthquake
Invention
Gaining insight into the energy balance of earthquakes
Scientists have modeled the onset of slip between two bodies in frictional contact.
Science
Earthquake swarms reveal missing piece of tectonic plate-volcano puzzle
Most of the world's explosive volcanoes are located in volcanic arcs, framed by liquid fluxed melting of upper mantle rocks. The fluids that facilitate...
Environment
Satellite images reveal interconnected plumbing system that caused Bali volcano to erupt
The previous eruption of Agung in 1963 killed nearly 2,000 people and was followed by a small eruption at its neighboring volcano, Batur.
In September...
Invention
New method to determine how safe buildings are after an earthquake
Civil engineers usually face difficulties while deciding when it’s safe for a building’s residents to move back in after an earthquake. They have to...
Environment
A milestone for forecasting earthquake hazards
Analysts from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, University of Southern California, the University of California at Riverside and the U.S. Geological Survey has concocted...
Science
Using Machine learning tools to gain new insights from Earthquake data
Scientists at the Columbia University have discovered a totally new way to study earthquakes. They picked out different types of earthquakes from three years using...