Earthquakes

In the 1800s, some of the strongest earthquakes in recorded U.S. history struck North America's continental interior. Almost two centuries later, the central and eastern United States may…

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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southeastern…

A new study from a University of Chicago scientist suggests there may be a layer of surprisingly fluid rock ringing the Earth, at the very bottom of the upper mantle. The finding was made by…

PTI Houston, February 20 An everyday quirk of physics could be a valuable new way to investigate the causes and potential for a large, damaging earthquake to happen, according to a…

And last month in the journal Scientific Reports, a separate team of researchers described how they used undersea cables off the coasts of Chile, Greece, and France to detect earthquakes.…

New projects are being developed all the time, as more volunteers join with ideas and take on open tasks. But it’s not possible to direct every volunteer to a project. “Too many people…

Early Monday morning, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake ripped through Turkey and Syria, followed nine hours later by a 7.5 aftershock. The death toll stands at over 3,800, and rescuers have only…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When it comes to predicting disasters brought on by…

Local stress in the bridge structure just as lateral displacements get drastically large (deformations have been…