Earthquake

How water in the deep Earth triggers earthquakes and tsunamis?

Oceanic lithosphere carries volatiles, notably water, into the mantle through subduction at convergent plate boundaries. This subducted water exercises control on the production of...

New research unveiled structures deep inside the Earth

Most of what we know about the interior of the Earth comes from the study of seismic waves from earthquakes. These waves contain vital...

Earth’s inner core is rotating, study

Temporal changes of inner-core (IC) seismic phases have been confirmed with high-quality waveform doublets. However, the nature of the temporal changes is still controversial. Geologists...

Bendable, cement-free concrete to better withstand natural disasters

Scientists at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a new type of concrete that can bend under load, potentially making...

Gaining insight into the energy balance of earthquakes

Scientists have modeled the onset of slip between two bodies in frictional contact.

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...

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...

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...

Something unexpected and weird is happening beneath California’s deadliest faults

Another examination of thousands of small earthquakes that have happened in the San Bernardino basin close to the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults...

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...

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...

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