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Popular Mechanics
January 13, 2010
Cassie Rodenberg |
Could Haiti's Earthquake Tragedy Have Been Prevented? One group of scientists thinks so. Back in 2008, Eric Calais and Paul Mann, geophysicists who study fault lines in the Caribbean, predicted that Haiti would soon face such a devastating quake.   |
Insurance & Technology
January 21, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Catastrophe Risk Models Show January 12 Haiti Quake Presages Future Caribbean Earthquakes This time the insurance industry responded with charity, but the next Caribbean earthquake could require a massive claims response, given the region's seismic hazard. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Geotimes
July 2007 |
Geophysicist Ross Stein Like all who study earthquakes, Ross Stein doesn't want to just understand them - he wants to anticipate them. |
Geotimes
August 2003
Megan Sever |
Greek Islands blasted with strong quakes Around 8:15 a.m. local time, the Greek island Lefkada began shaking and continued all day, with at least five earthquakes registering between magnitudes 4.3 and 6.3 on the Richter scale. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
February 15, 2009
Karen Rowan |
Predicting Earthquakes: Scientists Use Satellites and Drills to Follow a Force of Nature The awesome energy unleashed by earthquakes is something geologists still struggle to understand. To gather information on how the Earth moves, scientists use drills and GPS satellites. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Sara Pratt |
Pressure Shifts in Yellowstone The 2002 rupture of Alaska's Denali fault triggered more than 250 smaller-magnitude quakes, altering the eruption behavior of many of the park's famed geysers. |
Geotimes
December 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Lab Experiment Reveals Earthquake Ruptures Not all earthquakes are created equal, according to new research that has brought earthquakes into the lab. For the first time, researchers physically observed two types of earthquake growth patterns, which until now, were limited to the realm of theory. |
Scientific American
June 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Are Midwestern Earthquake Faults Shutting Down? Midwesterners may have already seen the last of earthquakes in their region |
Geotimes
May 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
Slow Earthquakes, Tiny Tremors Small earthquakes and tiny tremors originating deep in fault zones are the result of slow earthquakes at Earth's surface, according to a new study. |
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
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
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. |
Geotimes
December 2006
Margaret Putney |
Tsunami Risk Still High in Sumatra Another major earthquake and tsunami will strike the western coast of Sumatra sometime in the next few decades, according to researchers studying the region's history. And the predicted tsunami has a significant chance of hitting densely populated areas, the team says. |
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. |
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Earthquake Savings Time Earth's days may have gotten a little bit shorter since the massive earthquake in Chile, but don't feel bad if you haven't noticed. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Laura Stafford |
Sumatra Seismic Risk Recent research indicates that Indonesia, as well as other regions like the Caribbean, could experience more earthquake and tsunami activity in the near future. |
Popular Mechanics
July 30, 2008
Erik Sofge |
L.A. Quake Was Minor, but Is America Ready for the Big One? The quake preparedness of Los Angeles was put to the test yesterday, but only barely. |
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 |
Geotimes
March 2005
Susan E. Hough |
Earthquakes: Predicting the Unpredictable? Seismologists are quite good at identifying where large earthquakes are likely to occur on time scales of several decades to centuries, but still unable to identify regions where earthquakes will happen tomorrow, next week, or even within the next few years. |
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
October 2006
Jennifer Yauck |
River Bends Reveal Past Quakes The connection between river courses and earthquake activity is allowing seismologists to look at past earthquakes along a Midwestern fault zone with new perspective, and could enable them to more accurately assess future earthquake risk in the Mississippi region. |
Scientific American
January 2006
David Appell |
Easing Jitters When Buildings Rumble After natural disasters, an anxious public wants to see that someone understands the catastrophe. For California quakes, seismologist Lucy Jones does the job. |
Geotimes
November 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Shift in Chile's Seismic History New research documenting tsunami deposits in the Nazca plate region is resetting the seismic clock. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
Re-engineering the Bay Bridge: Built Quake Tough Engineers knew that returning the bridge to its pre-earthquake state wouldn't be enough. They needed to come up with a solution that could withstand some of the worst that California's fault zones are capable of dishing out. |
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
August 2005 |
Drilling project finds fault A drill rig in California is being used to research the San Andreas fault. |
Geotimes
May 2006
Carolyn Gramling |
Indonesian Quake Linked to Volcanic Activity? A powerful earthquake rocked through Indonesia's district of Bantul early Saturday morning, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. The quake could spell trouble for nearby Mount Merapi volcano, now on high alert for eruption. |
Geotimes
March 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
New Madrid Fault Dying? A series of devastating earthquakes that altered the course of the Mississippi River in the early 19th century may have been among the last gasps of an old, dying fault system, a controversial new study suggests. |
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. |
Outside
August 2008
Victor Paul Borg |
Seeing Red Want to get beyond your misconceptions of long-vilified, suddenly mourned, ever-important China? Then go. |
Geotimes
October 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
Talc May Reduce Friction at Creeping Fault A three-kilometer-deep borehole drilled by SAFOD in 2005 crossed the central "creeping" part of the San Andreas Fault, producing rock cuttings containing both serpentinite and talc. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Magnitude-8.7 Earthquake Hits Sumatra, Small Tsunami Wave Detected An earthquake that was quite close the site of December's catastrophic quake has prompted warning bulletins from NOAA's Pacific Tsunami Warning system suggesting the evacuation of coastlines within 1,000 kilometers of the epicenter. |
BusinessWeek
September 19, 2005
Grover & Palmeri |
The Day California Cracks Budget crises have left the state ill prepared for a big quake. The good news is, with the feds scaling back, communities are finding ways to fend for themselves. |
Chemistry World
March 26, 2009
Jon Cartwright |
Quakes eat up the heat More than half of the heat generated by friction in earthquakes could go to towards endothermic reactions, a study by geoscientists in Japan and Taiwan has shown. |
Science News
November 12, 2005 |
From the November 9, 1935, issue Mechanics is portrayed in a photomural created by high school students... Cloud of island universes added to known space... Moon's tidal force provides trigger starting earthquake... |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Natural Hazards News Stories of 2006 Looking Into Landslides... Getting Ready for the Rumble... Levee Concerns Abound... Spreading Wildfire... etc. |
Geotimes
April 2003
Lisa M. Pinsker |
Shaking in the South This morning, a magnitude-4.9 earthquake struck just east of Fort Payne, Ala. Felt from North Carolina to Mississippi, the quake awoke confused southerners from their sleep just before 5:00 a.m. |
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. |
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. |
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
April 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Deep Sediments, Strong Quakes The surprising strength of the earthquake that triggered the 2004 Sumatran tsunami urged seismologists to discover triggers that lead up to these events. New models show responsibility may rest on sediments than can collect kilometers deep at the junctions of tectonic plates. |
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
May 13, 2008
Erik Sofge |
3 Frontiers in Earthquake Tech to Aid China--and Help the U.S. Can a network of GPS sensors store enough data online to scout the Bay Area's looming quake? And could the rig work in the Chinese countryside? |
Fast Company
February 2011
Jocelyn C. Zuckerman |
How Tech Is Helping the Haiti Recovery Since the 2010 earthquake, not-for-profits and corporations have developed new technologies to better deliver services to Haitians, transforming aid in disaster areas everywhere. |
Geotimes
January 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Seismic Warnings Researchers suggest that the first few seconds of an earthquake have the potential to reveal the final size that an earthquake will grow to be -- with implications for how earthquakes physically unfold. |
Geotimes
October 2004
Jay Chapman |
Melting Glaciers Promote Earthquakes In southern Alaska, melting glaciers heat up the possibility of earthquakes. |
