EARTHQUAKES BIG ONE COULD BE FELT ACROSS CALIFORNIA SCIENCE: Caltech study suggests that hazards may have to be re-evaluated.PASADENA - Californians having been hearing for decades that anenormously powerful earthquake...Figueroa, James
A comprehensive new catalog that factors in "hidden" quakes is helping scientists better understand the planet's tectonic activity.
Seismologist Charles Richter, also an alumnus, developed the magnitude scale that bears his name, the Richter scale for measuring the power of earthquakes. In engineering, Theodore von Kármán made many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow ...
fluids were injected into the fault zone and diffused through the channels, triggering earthquakes. This natural injection process was sustained over about four years, the team found.
As part of the Ring of Fire, California is subject to tsunamis, floods, droughts, Santa Ana winds, wildfires, and landslides on steep terrain; California also has several volcanoes. It has many earthquakes due to several faults running through the state, the largest being the San Andreas Fault...
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