A University of Iowa researcher found that 28% of eligible recipients turn the loans down because they worry the interest rate is too high. However, as climate change causes more destructive natural disasters, they should be encouraged to say yes to avoid stressing public relief agencies.
There’s an important dividing line in the history of recent Texas earthquakes – those occurring before and after 2017, when the establishment of the Texas Seismological Network (TexNet) introduced the ability to monitor seismic events to much lower magnitude.
Computational modeling shows that plate tectonics weren’t necessary for early continents
A pioneering study has unlocked new insights into the immediate behavior of the Earth's crust following earthquakes. By applying sub-daily Global Positioning System (GPS) solutions, researchers have precisely measured the spatial and temporal evolution of early afterslip following the 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake. This innovative approach represents a significant advancement in seismic analysis, providing a more accurate and rapid depiction of ground deformations that are crucial for assessing seismic hazards and understanding fault line activities.
After a devastating childhood earthquake in the Gujarat region of her home country of India, Jyoti Sharma often thought about creating an early earthquake warning system.
In August 2021, an earthquake struck southwest Haiti, killing thousands of people and leaving more than half a million seeking help. Assessment of this disaster and its response can serve as a model for evaluating future disasters and making life-saving improvements, according to new research from the University of Notre Dame.
When one tectonic plate slides underneath another tectonic plate, strong earthquakes result rather frequently. The severe earthquake off the coast of Taiwan in early April 2024 also took place at such a subduction interface.
The January 1, 2024, Noto Peninsula, Japan, Mw7.5 earthquake has undoubtedly been one of the most important earthquakes in 2024, causing widespread attention of the seismological community worldwide. In a recent Editorial of Earthquake Research Advances, titled “Tracing the pace of an approaching ‘seismic dragon king’: additional evidence for the Noto earthquake swarm and the 2024 Mw7.5 Noto earthquake”, Liu, Yue, and her coauthors comment on the predictability of this earthquake.
Researchers at the Statewide California Earthquake Center, or SCEC, are unraveling the mysteries of earthquakes by using physics-based computational models running on high-performance computing systems at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The team’s findings will provide a better understanding of seismic hazards in the Golden State.
Secret underground nuclear tests could now be a thing of the past thanks to a major scientific breakthrough in ways to identify them.
The Seattle fault zone is a network of shallow faults slicing through the lowlands of Puget Sound, threatening to create damaging earthquakes for the more than four million people who live there.
It is common knowledge that humans have a big effect on the world and their natural environment. However, what may be less well-known is that humans can also induce earthquakes.
A new study has identified a potentially growing natural hazard in the North: frostquakes. With climate change contributing to many observed changes in weather extremes, such as heavy precipitation and cold waves, these seismic events could become more common. Researchers were surprised by the role of wetlands and drainage channels in irrigated wetlands in origin of frostquakes.
Researchers have discovered a series of large undersea sediment deposits in a region near Italy that were likely formed by an ancient volcanic supereruption.
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