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Though earthquakes have terrorized people since ancient times, it's only been in the past 100 years that scientists have come to understand what causes them, and to develop technology to detect their origin and measure their magnitude. In addition, engineers and architects have worked to make bu...
in central California. Six earthquakes in that section had occurred at unusually regular intervals compared to earthquakes along other faults, so scientists from the US Geological Survey (USGS) forecasted with a high degree of confidence that the...
But Santa's way ahead of the game. One reason it's hard for us to build a matter-antimatter engine is because of the lack of antimatter in the universe -- scientists believe that during the Big Bang, there was more matter than antimatter, and most of the antimatter was annihilated. ...
the fact that scientists have not yet carefully considered anti-correlated waveforms. The set of reported case studies concerns a broad range of magnitudes, spanning from microseismicity associated to fluid injection operations up to earthquakes of magnitudes Mw 6.0, e.g., at the Mid Atlantic ridge...
Repeating earthquakes, or repeaters, affecting overlapping rupture patches with a similar focal mechanism, have important implications to track fault slip rates, aseismic deformation, slow earthquakes and earthquake nucleation processes. They are often d
Current nuclear energy production isconsidered safe by the World Nuclear Association. But safety failures still happen, whetherfrom human errorornatural disasterssuch as earthquakes bringing the mechanical sensors offline—and that’s where our plant sensors could come in. ...
having provided the best-ever look at the interior of Mars and being the first time a seismometer has been used on another planet. To learn about how a single little lander was able to look through an entire planet, we spoke to two leading scientists on the InSight team, Catherine Johnson...
Ideally, people would like to know when an earthquake is going to happen and how bad it will be. Inboth Japan and China, people have long believed that earthquakes can be forecast. In Japan, scientistshave wired the Earth and sea to detect movements. The Chinese have traditionally watched ...
How Twitter is helping the U.S. government detect earthquakes.Matthews, Chris