History repeats itself. In these 3,500 years, massive earthquake like the Pacifi c coast of Tohoku earthquake in 2011 has occurred at least seven times. Major earthquakes with big tsunami have occurred in 500- year cycles along the Pacifi c coast of northern part of Japan. The tsunami ...
An earthquake swarm affected the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica, a unique rift basin in transition from intra-arc rifting to ocean spreading. The swarm, counting ~85,000 volcano-tectonic earthquakes since August 2020, is located close to the Orca submarine volcano, previously considered inactive. Simu...
35 Residents check the damage done on a road and house in Sukagawa city, Fukushima prefecture, in northern Japan. (Fukushima Minpo) # 36 Workers inspect a caved-in section of a prefectural road in Satte, Saitama Prefecture, after one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in Japan slammed...
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The discovery is important because scientists think that underground water pressure may be a key ingredient in creating conditions that release tectonic stress via slow slip earthquakes. This usually happens when water-rich sediments are buried with the fault, trapping the water underground. However...
The gentle slope had fissures/cracks in the catchment area of Balaroa, Petobo, and Jono Oge by 0.4 km2, 1.43 km2, and 1.35 km2, respectively (Mason et al.2019). It is clear that flash flood is the primary cause of infrastructure and casualties during earthquakes in gentle slopes. Rainfal...
Big earthquakes are vastly more powerful than small ones—energy increases 30-fold with every step up the Richter scale—and deep earthquakes, "instead of frittering away their energy in the crust, can get the whole mantle going," Irving said. She gets her best data from earthquakes that are...
Due to its immense height, the X-Seed 4000 would be required to actively protect the inhabitants of its higher floors from air pressure variations and weather fluctuations. As it was planned to be built on the Pacific Ring of Fire, it would be also often subject to devastating earthquakes an...
Fossil earthquakes recorded by pseudotachylytes in mantle peridotite from the Alpine subduction complex of Corsica. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 242, 58–72 (2006). 48. Rubatto, D. & Hermann, J. Exhumation as fast as subduction? Geology 29, 3–6 (2001). 49. Hermann, J., Spandler, C....
Mount Tambora changed the world. In 1815, the Indonesian volcano exploded in the most powerful eruption in recorded history, sending an enormous plumeof tiny sun-reflecting particleshigh into the atmosphere, cooling the planet and ushering in disaster. What followed was called the “year without a...