Tag: Earthquakes
Aid is on the way after Venezuela’s earthquakes, but it’s not...
Dulce Suarez, Florida International University
For a country already facing serious humanitarian needs, the two powerful earthquakes that shook...
Venezuela’s deadly earthquakes happened on a fault similar to the San...
Sylvain Barbot, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Venezuela and its capital, Caracas, were rocked by two...
US earthquake safety relies on federal employees’ expertise
Jonathan P. Stewart, University of California, Los Angeles and Lucy Arendt, St. Norbert College
Earthquakes and the damage they...
How global warming shakes the Earth: Seismic data show ocean waves...
Richard Aster, Colorado State University
As oceans waves rise and fall, they apply forces to the sea floor below...
How has the inside of the Earth stayed as hot as...
Shichun Huang, University of Tennessee
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What causes a tsunami? An ocean scientist explains the physics of...
Sally Warner, Brandeis University
On Jan. 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga erupted, sending a tsunami...
Oil field operations likely triggered earthquakes in California a few miles...
Thomas H. Goebel, University of Memphis
The way companies drill for oil and gas and dispose of wastewater can trigger earthquakes, at times in unexpected...
Earthquake forecast for Puerto Rico: Dozens more large aftershocks are likely
Richard Aster, Colorado State University
Multiple strong and damaging earthquakes in southern Puerto Rico starting around Dec. 28, 2019 have killed at least one person,...
EXPLORING NATURE
How did it feel to be an American colonist in 1776?...
Katherine Ott, Smithsonian Institution
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