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Poorer people have a harder time recovering from disasters
The poorer someone or their family is, the harder it is for them to recover and regain their former standard of living after an earthquake or other natural disaster strikes, researchers report. After a...
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Method aims to ease trouble from fracking earthquakes
A new approach to managing the risk of earthquakes from fracking could let regulators stop in time to prevent nuisance and reduce the risk of property damage and injury, say researchers. The approach...
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Tectonic plates are a lot older than we thought
Earth’s ever-shifting, underground network of tectonic plates was firmly in place more than 4 billion years ago—at least a billion years earlier than scientists generally thought, according to a new...
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Rockfall map suggests moon’s surface still changes
Researchers have analyzed an archive of more than two million images of the lunar surface and have created the first global map of rockfalls on the moon. Even billions-year-old landscapes are still...
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Ancient rocks may determine earthquakes in Australia
Rock structures formed deep within the ancient Gondwana supercontinent controlled the rupture pathways of one of Australia’s largest modern earthquakes, research finds. Seismological and geological...
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Anthropause: Lockdowns sent ‘wave’ of quiet around the world
The COVID-19 lockdown period results in a 50% reduction in seismic noise around the world. By analyzing months-to-year-long datasets from over 300 seismic stations around the world, the study was able...
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Team measures Mars from crust to core
Using data from NASA’s InSight Lander on Mars, seismologists have made the first direct measurements of three subsurface boundaries from the crust to the core of the red planet. “Ultimately it may help...
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Erupting volcano’s collapsing crater confirms friction ideas
A new analysis of the 2018 collapse of Kīlauea volcano’s caldera helps to confirm current ideas about how friction works on earthquake faults. The model quantifies the conditions necessary to start the...
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Deep drilling offers clues to Japan’s next big earthquake
Scientists who drilled deeper into an undersea earthquake fault than ever before have found that the tectonic stress in Japan’s Nankai subduction zone is less than expected. The findings, published in...
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Marsquakes hint volcanoes still shape Red Planet’s surface
New research suggests volcanic activity still plays an active role in shaping the surface of Mars. Since 2018, when the NASA InSight Mission deployed the SEIS seismometer on the surface of Mars,...
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Can machine learning predict the next big disaster?
A new study shows how machine learning could predict rare disastrous events, like earthquakes or pandemics. The research suggests how scientists can circumvent the need for massive data sets to...
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Tectonic plates shed light on Alaska’s Denali Fault
A new study of tectonic plate thickness across the Denali Fault in Alaska begins to fill major gaps in understanding about how geological faults behave and appear as they deepen. When the rigid plates...
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Why were the Turkey and Syria earthquakes so devastating?
Earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria this month killed over 20,000 people and collapsed thousands of buildings. Why were they so catastrophic—and could they have been predicted? Around 4 AM local time...
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Quakes may explain why these moons are oddly smooth
Quakes could be the source of the mysteriously smooth terrain on the moons circling Jupiter and Saturn, according to a new study. Many of the ice-encrusted moons orbiting the giant planets in the far...
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Algorithm predicts 70% of earthquakes in trial
A new artificial intelligence algorithm correctly predicted 70% of earthquakes a week before they happened during a seven-month trial in China. The technology could hopefully one day be used to limit...
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