Geology

Concepción Moved 10ft West By Chile Earthquake

to the west. And Chile's capital, Santiago, moved about 11 inches to the west-southwest. The ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2011 - 3:23pm

Iceland Volcano Spreads Ash Across UK

from west to east at a height of about 11 km above the surface Earth.  Credit: ESA The estimated ash ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2010 - 12:58pm

Organic Carbon In Meteorites Came From Mars

group examined samples from 11 Martian meteorites whose ages span about 4.2 billion years of Martian ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2012 - 6:17pm

Found: Lost, Ancient Continent Under The Indian Ocean

7 km thick.   They analyzed sand grains from beaches in Mauritius, a volcanic island about 600 miles ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2013 - 4:00pm

Quantifying Earthquake Hazards In The Pacific Northwest- It's Complicated

learn about turbidites—beds of sand and mud laid down by bottom-hugging, sediment-driven currents that ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2014 - 10:01pm

Younger Dryas: Microscopic Diamonds Suggest Cosmic Impact Caused It

debate about the presence of nanodiamonds in the YDB field and challenge existing paradigms across ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2014 - 8:00am

Number Of Large Earthquakes Dropped 60 Percent In 2014

NEIC receives data in real-time from about 1,700 stations in more than 90 countries. These stations ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2015 - 9:00am

A Methane Spike On Mars Has Been Detected

atmosphere, which turned out to be a day after Curiosity reported a spike of about six parts per billion,” ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2019 - 5:45pm

The Roof Of The World Has Been Raised Nearly Half A Mile

reveal about the movements of Earth's tectonic plates. Encoded within these lavas are records of ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2021 - 12:39pm

Volcanic Eruptions, Ancient Global Warming Linked

extinction of some bottom-dwelling organisms characterize the PETM. This interval occurred about 300,000 ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2007 - 2:10am