Tag: earthquake

During the 20th century, earthquakes in Europe accounted for more than 200,000 deaths and over 250 billion Euros in losses. ...

The 12 August 2021 South Sandwich Island earthquake had a surprise hidden within its complex rupture sequence: a slow, shallow ...

Public tests of an earthquake early warning system in Nicaragua are among the latest steps in a collaboration to build ...

A device that could detect minute, transient fluctuations in gravity caused by an earthquake could be a useful tool in ...

Earthquakes themselves affect the movement of Earth's tectonic plates, which in turn could impact on future earthquakes, according to new ...

A network of simple seismic stations, hosted in volunteers’ homes, helped to rapidly evaluate and characterize the Mw7.2 Nippes earthquake ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – By examining earthquake models from a fresh perspective, Cornell University engineers now show that the earthquake fracture energy ...

Highlights Credit: Zhe Jia and AGU Highlights A 47 km-deep, magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck the south Atlantic in 2021 ...

Earthquakes of similar magnitude can cause tsunamis of greatly varying sizes. This commonly observed, but not well-understood phenomenon has hindered ...

A Canadian-German research team have documented a new type of earthquake in an injection environment in British Columbia, Canada. Unlike ...

Three-dimensional fault models are generally more accurate than two-dimensional line models at sending ground shaking alerts to the correct areas ...

New research from The University of Texas at Austin could change the way scientists think about potential damage from earthquakes. Credit: ...