This Week's Topic:

The Science Of Earthquakes

Given the recent events in Japan, earthquakes - their prediction and causes - are a key concern, along with related issues such as tsunamis and disaster planning.   Here we compile key pieces on earthquakes and tsunamis for the readership.
Report Says Drilling, Not Earthquake, Caused The Lusi Mud Volcano

The two-year old mud volcano called Lusi spews huge volumes of mud and has displaced more than...

Antarctic Seismic Waves Equal To A Magnitude 7 Earthquake - Every Day

A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University...

The Mystery Of Surface Waves From Large Earthquakes Triggering Small Ones Across The World

Until 1992, when California’s magnitude-7.3 Landers earthquake set off small jolts as far away...

Wabash Valley Fault - That Earthquake In Illinois Could Be The Start Of Something

The earthquake on April 18, 2008, about 120 miles east of St. Louis, registered 5.2 on the Richter...

Odd Tectonic Plate Movement - Lighter Ones Sink Into The Lower Mantle

The first direct evidence of how and when tectonic plates move, that collision with one sliding...

Mount St. Helens Study Identifies New Cause Of Earthquakes

Volcanoes are notoriously hard to study. All the action takes place deep inside, at enormous temperatures...

How Better Maps Could Prevent Earthquake Disasters

Africa and Europe get about 4 mm closer every year in a northeast convergence direction. The exact...

Doublet Earthquakes And Earthquake Dynamics

Earthquakes occurring at the edges of tectonic plates can trigger events at a distance and much...

Discovery: New Active Fault Is Building More Dalmation Islands

A newly identified fault that runs under the Adriatic Sea is actively building more of the famously...

Rising Tides Intensify Non-Volcanic Tremor In Earth's Crust

For more than a decade geoscientists have detected what amount to ultra-slow-motion earthquakes...

Why Do Some Seafloor Earthquakes Create Tsunamis Yet Others Do Not?

Research announced this week by a team of U.S. and Japanese geoscientists may help explain why...

Chemistry Of San Andreas Fault May Offer Clues To Earthquake Mysteries

Scientists have obtained core samples from deep inside California's San Andreas Fault for the first...

Ocean Drilling Could Hold Key To Understanding Earthquakes

One of the most ambitious earth science expeditions yet mounted to gain a better understanding...

Why Deep Ocean Earthquakes Are Smaller Than Expected

Many earthquakes in the deep ocean are much smaller in magnitude than expected. Geophysicists from...

Making Bridges 'Dance' For Better Earthquake Durability

Bridges that "dance" during earthquakes could be the safest and least expensive to build, retrofit...

Study: Sensors,dampers Limit Earthquake Damage

An earthquake engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has successfully performed the...

Massive Coral Death Attributed To Earthquake

Scientists have reported what is thought to be one of the world’s greatest mass death of...

NASA Data Show Earthquakes May Quickly Boost Regional Volcanoes

Scientists using NASA satellite data have found strong evidence that a major earthquake can...

Media Bias Distorts Details Of Past Earthquakes, Says Seismologist

The story of some violent historic earthquakes may need to be revisited, according to a study...

Faulted Modeling

Factoring in crustal strength changes along the San Andreas Fault would improve the predictive...