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Geotimes
October 2004
Megan Sever |
Deadly quakes shake Japan This weekend marks the deadliest spate of quakes in Japan since the 1995 Kobe quake, which killed more than 6,000 people.   |
Geotimes
October 2006
Carolyn Gramling |
Strong Earthquake Shakes up Hawaii A magnitude-6.7 earthquake rumbled through the island chain of Hawaii, originating near Hawaii island, known as the "Big Island," according to the USGS. An aftershock with a magnitude of 6.0 followed seven minutes later. |
Geotimes
March 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Earthquake Jostles Iran After an evening of precursory tremors, a magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck western Iran today. |
Geotimes
April 2004
Megan Sever |
Powerful earthquake strikes Afghanistan At 1:54 a.m. local time today (April 6, 2004), a magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck the eastern province of Afghanistan. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Megan Sever |
Devastation in the Indian Ocean A magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Sunday morning, followed by dozens of powerful aftershocks and large tsunamis that reached as far as the east coast of Africa, some 4,800 kilometers away. |
Geotimes
September 2004
Megan Sever |
Quake strikes Central California The U.S. Geological Survey received more than 9,000 reports from people who felt the quake, from Sacramento to Los Angeles. |
Geotimes
November 2004
Megan Sever |
Powerful earthquake strikes Indonesia On Friday morning at 5:26 a.m. local time, a magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck the eastern Indonesian island of Kepulauan Alor, according to preliminary reports from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). |
Real Travel Adventures
May 2006
Kate Greenfield |
Teenagers Traveling In Greece Upon traveling to Greece, you will be seeing an entirely new culture. You will witness things that here in America would seem absolutely ridiculous. |
Insurance & Technology
January 13, 2010 |
Haiti Quake Caused by Caribbean Fault Earthquakes don't occur as often in the Caribbean as they do on land but the quake that hit Haiti Tuesday was not unprecedented, scientists say. |
Geotimes
November 2004
Laura Stafford |
Earthquake strikes Indonesia again A magnitude-7.2 earthquake that struck Papua, Indonesia, was followed by multiple aftershocks, one of which registered magnitude-6.1. The main pulse and the aftershocks resulted in 19 deaths, more than 180 people reported injured and at least 300 buildings destroyed. |
Insurance & Technology
April 5, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Recent Natural Catastrophes Should Alert U.S. Insurers to Dangers Experience with seismic events mitigated the human and property toll of the February Chile earthquake -- lessons that should inform insurers' planning in parts of the U.S. |
Geotimes
September 2003
Megan Sever |
Giant earthquake hits Japan A magnitude-8.1 earthquake struck off the southeastern coast of Hokkaido, Japan, before dawn on Friday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Japanese quake is the strongest to hit anywhere in the world this year. |
Geotimes
February 2004 |
Earthquake rocks Morocco At 2:27 a.m. local time today, a magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck the northern coast of Morocco. Preliminary reports suggest at least 300 people have died and many more have been injured, according to the Associated Press. |
High on Adventure
August 2007 |
Ionian Sailing Odyssey Following the path of Odysseus, sailing from Corfu to Ithaca offers the possibility of visiting many beautiful isles along the way. |
PC World
February 28, 2001
Stuart J. Johnston |
Seattle Quake Doesn't Rattle High-Tech Firms Monitors fell, techies shook, and Starbucks spilled--but business as usual is resuming. |
Geotimes
August 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Earthquake Shakes Japanese Coast The shaking originated 52.7 kilometers below sea level, off the eastern Japanese coast, about 95 kilometers east of Honshu and 350 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Irian Jaya quakes Several large earthquakes have slammed Papua, the easternmost part of Indonesia formerly known as Irian Jaya, over the past two days. Immediate reports of the dead and injured are in the tens, with the latest estimate from the Associated Press at 26 people killed. |
Geotimes
June 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Super-Size Quake California fell into the sea during a television miniseries aired by NBC. In addition to the other faulty geologic premises of the melodrama, one elemental error is the size of the earthquake that spawned the miniseries' disasters. |
Geotimes
June 2005
Megan Sever |
Quake Shakes Chile A magnitude-7.8 temblor rocked northern Chile and was felt throughout parts of Peru and Bolivia, including in the capital city of La Paz, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The quake was centered in the remote and mostly unpopulated northern Andes region of Tarapaca. |
Geotimes
June 2004
Megan Sever |
Midwest Shaking An earthquake rattled northwestern Illinois and points across the Midwest this morning Monday, June 28 at about 1:10 a.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. |
Geotimes
May 2004
Naomi Lubick |
New New Madrid Findings New research has moved a historical earthquake off the New Madrid faults, possibly changing the hazard conditions for the region and across the eastern United States. |
Popular Mechanics
January 5, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
New Earthquake-Proof Alloy Allows Bridges to Bend but Not Break (With Video!) In a recent test simulating the intensity of a magnitude 8 quake, a 100-ft-long model bridge built with the new earthquake-proof material suffered a little surface damage but remained structurally intact. |
Geotimes
March 2004
Mark Zoback |
Earthquake Prediction and the Developing World The toll from the Iranian earthquake in December -- at least 30,000 dead and an estimated 40,000 homeless in just a few seconds -- is difficult to comprehend. Unfortunately, we can predict with reasonable certainty that sometime in the next few years, in a country with buildings unprepared to withstand disaster, a catastrophic quake will happen again |
BusinessWeek
July 29, 2010
Smyth & Weeks |
Greek Villas Are Going Begging Luxury homes in Greece are being deeply discounted because of the debt crisis. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Megan Sever |
Tahoe quakes: business as usual? Scientists say they have figured out what caused two major events that shook the Sierra Nevada region in recent months. |
BusinessWeek
March 17, 2011
Jonathan Tirone |
Searching for Clues Along the Ring of Fire Japan's earthquake will generate aftershocks for years, producing data that may yield insights about the quake-prone Pacific Rim. |
Scientific American
March 2005
Madhusree Mukerjee |
The Scarred Earth Tsunami-spawning quake leaves geophysical changes. |
Geotimes
June 2005
Naomi Lubick |
California Earthquake Roundup Several significant earthquakes have struck California this week, ranging from 4.9 to 7.2 in magnitude, with two off the coast of Northern California and two in the Los Angeles basin. Scientists say that they are mostly unrelated. |
Smithsonian
April 2006
Fergus M. Bordewich |
Odyssey's End?: The Search for Ancient Ithaca A British researcher believes he has at last pinpointed the island to which Homer's wanderer returned. |
Geotimes
December 2003
Naomi Lubick |
Cascading earthquakes in L.A. A new understanding of the fault architecture underlying the Los Angeles basin that takes into account the effects of cascading tremors along adjacent faults has led seismologists to reconsider the seismic threats to the Los Angeles metropolis. |
BusinessWeek
October 7, 2010
A. Craig Copetas |
For Sale: Greek Islands The Greek government is considering selling islands and other luxury properties to erase some of its debt. The only problem is no one knows who owns what? |
AskMen.com
Salvatore Mann |
Top 10: Must-See Locales In Greece The 2004 Summer Olympic Games are scheduled to take place in the timeless city of Athens. In honor of the host, here are the 10 best places to visit in Greece, a country known not only for its historical wealth, but also for its culture of festivity and celebration. |
Smithsonian
March 2005
Kevin Krajick |
Future Shocks Modern science, ancient catastrophes and the endless quest to predict earthquakes. |
Popular Mechanics
October 5, 2009
Amber Angelle |
Earthquake Research Digs Deep to Find Timely Warning System Right now, the best that seismologists can do to "predict" earthquakes is to send out a warning immediately after activity is detected. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Sara Pratt |
Quake Uplifted Japan A large 17th-century earthquake comparable in size to the Dec. 26 Sumatra quake was responsible for pushing up land in Japan, according to new research based on the sediment record of a large tsunami. |
Geotimes
April 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Sumatra Quake Stronger Than Thought Now that researchers have had time to go back to the records, they are finding indications that last December's Sumatra earthquake released much more energy than they thought, in the form of rare low-frequency seismic waves. |
Geotimes
August 2003
Naomi Lubick |
Fast earthquakes break speed limit Some earthquakes may move faster than seismologists once thought possible. A new study published in the Aug. 8 Science shows the most convincing data yet that a large earthquake can travel down a fault at velocities that surpass theoretical limits. |
