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earthquake
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How To Prepare For Earthquakes
The work in this facility goes beyond preventing building collapse; they are also working on preventing functional loss,…
January 20, 2024
What causes earthquakes? A geologist explains where they’re most common and why
A man works his way through the rubble of buildings in Marrakesh, Morocco, after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake…
October 27, 2023
What caused Morocco’s earthquake? A geologist studying the Atlas mountains explains
Jesús Galindo-Zaldivar, Universidad de Granada The epicentre of Morocco’s devastating earthquake on 8 September was in the High…
September 28, 2023
Intense “Deep” Earthquakes May Be the Key to Revealing Previously-Unknown Details About the Earth’s Mantle
According to a new study published in Nature, a layer of fluid rock could be at the bottom…
March 6, 2023
Seismologists can’t predict an impending earthquake, but longer term forecasts and brief warnings after one starts are possible
Seismologists monitor the Earth’s activity, but can’t predict a day, time and place for the next ‘big one.’…
March 1, 2023
Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: how satellites can help rescue efforts
Emilie Bronner, Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES) In disasters like the 7.8 magnitude earthquake and 7.5-magnitude aftershock that…
February 20, 2023
Turkey-Syria earthquakes: a seismologist explains what has happened
Jenny Jenkins, Durham University An extremely large earthquake has occurred in the southeast of Turkey, near the border…
February 19, 2023
There May Be a Strange Type of Iron Alloy Sitting Inside Earth’s Core, New Study Suggests
A recent study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) suggests that there may be something “strange” present…
March 24, 2022
The Dangers That Lie Beneath the Mississippi
YouTube channel Deep Dive is back, this time with a video that details the hidden dangers that lie…
December 18, 2021
Scientists Just Detected the Deepest Earthquake Ever Recorded
Seismologists monitor the movements on and under the Earth’s crust on a regular basis as a rule of…
November 24, 2021