Tag: Earthquakes
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,...
A new way to identify a rare type of earthquake in...
Valerie Sahakian, University of Oregon
Just a few times in a century, somewhere on the globe, a rare “tsunami earthquake” occurs. These are mysterious because,...
Injecting wastewater underground can cause earthquakes up to 10 kilometers away
Emily Brodsky, University of California, Santa Cruz
Earthquakes in the central and eastern United States have increased dramatically in the last decade as a result...
Global toll from landslides is heaviest in developing countries
A. Joshua West, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
This month’s tragic mudslides in Montecito, California are a reminder...
EXPLORING NATURE
Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already...
Ellen Welti, Smithsonian Institution
More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend...
