Why Aren't We Afraid Of A Tsunami Hitting San Francisco?
Science When a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's eastern coast early Friday morning, we all feared a tsunami. But San Francisco gets earthquakes all the time, and we're not scared of a...
View Article3-D Painting Visualizes Earthquakes In Real Time
Science Part painting, part sculpture, Quakescape taps realtime seismological data to create a color-coded visualization of the earth's movements beneath Christchurch, New Zealand. Design student...
View ArticleJapan's 2011 Earthquake Happened In An Area Considered Low-Risk. Where's Next?
Science New clues show how the massive Japanese earthquake happened, and how certain faults could pose a previously unrealized threat. The massive earthquake that walloped Japan nearly two years ago...
View ArticleWatch The Solomon Islands Earthquake Travel All The Way To Michigan
Science Yesterday's magnitude 8 earthquake sent seismic energy rippling round the world. Nobody in the American midwest felt the massive magnitude 8 earthquake that shook the Solomon Islands, 7000...
View ArticleScientists Will Monitor Seahawks Stadium For Fan-Induced Earthquakes
Environment Earthquake or touchdown? On Saturday, the Carolina Panthers and Seattle Seahawks will meet for a NFC divisional playoff game at CenturyLink Field in downtown Seattle. But while football...
View ArticleEarthquake Monitors Used To Decode Massive Ammunition Explosion
Military CSI: Earth Seismometers are used to measure shaking during earthquakes, but they can also measure other kinds of shaking. Seismometers are used to measure shaking during earthquakes, but they...
View ArticleSeismologists: North Korea’s Latest Nuke Blast Modestly Bigger Than Their First
Military An incremental increase in power Seismologists compared blast data to older tests. Seismologists compared blast data to older tests.
View ArticleHow the Apollo lunar modules were smashed for science
From Our Blogs: Vintage Space Each Apollo lunar module cost about $149,000,000. So why were they unceremoniously smashed into the Moon? Each Apollo lunar module cost about $149,000,000. So why were...
View ArticleWait, I Thought We Couldn't Predict Earthquakes
Science Oh, right, we can't Last week, the headlines were particularly frightening. 'Massive Earthquake Along the San Andreas Fault Is Disturbingly Imminent'…
View ArticleGeologists think there could be a quadrillion tons of diamonds inside our planet
Science But we’ll never get them out of the ground. In a new paper published this week, an international team of researchers estimates that about 1 to 2 percent of the Earth’s cratonic roots are made...
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