Earthquakes occur when two plates suddenly slip past each other, setting off seismic waves that cause the planet's surface to shake, according to the USGS. What is an earthquake, scientifically speaking? An earthquake is what happens when the seismic energy from plates slipping past each other...
The Earth has several layers, but the only one fragile enough to fracture during an earthquake is the lithosphere. That's the layer that contains tectonic plates. Earthquakes can be so powerful that they reshape the landscape in surprisingly novel ways. For example, a lake just south of New ...
In 132 CE, Zhang Heng presented his latest invention: a large vase he claimed could tell them whenever an earthquake occurred for hundreds of miles. Today, we no longer rely on pots as warning systems, but earthquakes still offer challenges to those tryi
Earthquakes are among the most powerful and terrifying events on earth. Unfortunately for thousands of years they have been a common occurrence in Peru. To this day we can't predict earthquakes and never know when and where to expect the next tremor and
Was it simply the enormous magnitude and violence of the quake, or is the problem with the buildings? Thousands of years of earthquakes Earthquakes are common in Turkey, which sits in a very seismically active region where three tectonic plates constantly grind against one another beneath Earth's...
Symptoms, or behaviors, could be thought of as the observable manifestation of a person’s internal conflict. Someone with a penchant for, say, disruptive or explosive behavior is analogous to tectonic plate shifting. Internal geologic unrest culminates in the expression of earthquake...
I've learned over the years that some of the weirdest events have a reason for happening if you're willing to dig deep enough to figure out why. That's true for a series of recent earthquakes in Illinois that seemed to happen in unexpected places. There'
Today, we no longer rely on pots to identify seismic events, 现今,我们不再依靠瓶子来识别地震, but earthquakes still offer a unique challenge to those trying to track them. 但对于试图追踪地震的人来说, 地震仍然是个很独特的挑战。 So why are earthquakes so hard to anticipate, ...
F. Hendry More generally, an important source of changes are environmental, perhaps precipitated by social and economic behaviour like CO2 emissions and their consequences, but also occurring naturally as with earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and phenomena like El Niño. Policy decisions have to take ...
I used to think that successful investing mainly involved how astute one was at analyzing economic and financial matters and only involved psychology to a...