News articles tagged with 'fault'
Earthquakes: Water as a lubricant
— 2 Dec 2011 10:23 | Geology and palaeontologyGeophysicists from Potsdam have established a mode of action that can explain the irregular distribution of strong earthquakes at the San Andreas Fault in California. As the science…
New Zealand earthquake damage illustrates risks posed by shallow crustal faults
— 23 Feb 2011 19:44 | Geology and palaeontologyThe terribly destructive earthquake that just hit Christchurch, New Zealand, was only a moderate 6.3 magnitude, but had certain characteristics that offer an important lesson to cities…
Lake-effect theory sinks, but quake timing questions go on
— 11 Feb 2011 15:45 | Geology and palaeontologyA chronology of 1,000 years of earthquakes at the southern end of the San Andreas Fault nixes the idea that lake changes in the now-dry region caused past quakes. However, researchers…
Earthshaking possibilities may limit underground storage of carbon dioxide
— 14 Dec 2010 19:48 | Geology and palaeontologyStoring massive amounts of carbon dioxide underground in an effort to combat global warming may not be easy to do because of the potential for triggering small- to moderate-sized earthquakes,…
Panama Canal, Panama City at risk of large earthquake, says new research
— 19 Nov 2010 12:17 | Geology and palaeontologyNew data suggest that the Limon and Pedro Miguel faults in Central Panama have ruptured both independently and in unison over the past 1400 years, indicating a significant seismic risk…
Tsunami risk higher in Los Angeles, other major cities
— 11 Oct 2010 10:48 | Geology and palaeontologyGeologists studying the Jan. 12 Haiti earthquake say the risk of destructive tsunamis is higher than expected in places such as Kingston, Istanbul, and Los Angeles…
NOAA-sponsored scientists first to map offshore San Andreas Fault and associated ecosystems
— 1 Oct 2010 11:42 | EnvironmentFor the first time, scientists are using advanced technology and an innovative vessel to study, image, and map the unexplored offshore Northern San Andreas Fault from north of San Francisco…
New view of tectonic plates
— 28 Aug 2010 09:43 | Geology and palaeontologyComputational scientists and geophysicists at the University of Texas at Austin and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed new computer algorithms that for…
Analysing audio-visual content
— 26 Aug 2010 19:25 | TechnologySome typical faults that the software of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT identifies are outputting mono instead of stereo sound, getting channels confused…
Big quakes more frequent than thought on San Andreas fault
— 21 Aug 2010 07:49 | Geology and palaeontologyEarthquakes have rocked the powerful San Andreas fault that splits California far more often than previously thought, according to UC Irvine and Arizona State University researchers…