Using Underwater Telecommunication Cables to Detect Earthquakes
Seismologists at Caltech working with optics experts at Google have developed a method to use existing underwater telecommunication cables to detect earthquakes. The technique could…
Seismologists at Caltech working with optics experts at Google have developed a method to use existing underwater telecommunication cables to detect earthquakes. The technique could…
Hours before the 2018 eruption of Sierra Negra, the Galápagos Islands’ largest volcano, an earthquake rumbled and raised the ground more than 6 feet in…
Can super-Earth interior dynamics set the table for habitability? New research led by Carnegie’s Yingwei Fei provides a framework for understanding the interiors of super-Earths…
Geologists have developed a new theory about the state of Earth billions of years ago after examining the very old rocks formed in the Earth’s…
CO2 Dip May Have Aided Herbivores on a 6,500-Mile Trek A new paper refines estimates of when herbivorous dinosaurs must have traversed North America on…
The songs of fin whales can be used for seismic imaging of the oceanic crust, providing scientists a novel alternative to conventional surveying, a new…
New research helps understand how plate tectonics powers life on Earth. Plate tectonics are responsible for the deep-carbon and deep-water cycles. Arrangement of continents has…
Supercomputer-powered framework developed by SCEC provides new view of seismic hazard. Massive earthquakes are, fortunately, rare events. But that scarcity of information blinds us in…
Geological Phenomenon Widening the Atlantic Ocean An upsurge of matter from deep beneath the Earth’s crust could be pushing the continents of North and South…
Shiveluch, an active volcano located on the Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Russia, has had more major eruptions than any other volcano in our current period…
Analysis of Steamboat Geyser also finds the relationship between column height and reservoir depth. When Yellowstone National Park’s Steamboat Geyser — which shoots water higher…
University of Tsukuba researchers have developed a state-of-the-art model, which has revealed major complexity in rupture processes even in simple oceanic faults. Researchers from the…
A team of researchers understands more about the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. They discovered a flow of hot rocks, known as a mantle…
Megathrust earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis that originate in subduction zones like Cascadia — Vancouver Island, Canada, to northern California — are some of the most…
Australia’s east coast is littered with the remnants of hundreds of volcanoes — the most recent just a few thousand years old — and scientists…
Study offers clues about the fate of tectonic plates that sink deep in Earth’s mantle. In a study that gives new meaning to the term…
International research led by geologists from Curtin University has found that a volcanic province in the Indian Ocean was the world’s most continuously active —…
Global sea level has been rising at a rate of 0.1 inches (3.3 millimeters) per year in the past three decades. The causes are mostly…