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Native American names extend the history of earthquakes in Northeastern North America
Mount Nashoba, a popular ski area, is a “swaying hill.” Credit: John Phellan/Wikimedia Commons In 1638, the current earthquake in Plymouth, Massachusetts caused water to stumble, sprint, from the pots Native Americans used to cook their midday meals along the St. Lawrence River. When Roger Williams, founder of the Rhode Island Colony, spoke with local Native Americans, he reported that…
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3D dynamic models provide a more accurate hazard assessment of earthquakes
Earthquake background and fault model for the 2023 Türkiye Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2025). doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02205-4 An international study published in Communications Earth & Environment proceeds with earthquake simulations to better predict the rupture process of major earthquakes. Using data from the February 2023 Turkish earthquake, scientists have developed a detailed 3D dynamic model that will better…
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Environment
Things you need to know about earthquakes like those that hit Myanmar
Volunteers are searching for survivors near a damaged building in Nepitau, Myanmar on Friday, March 28, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo Earlier on Friday, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that began near Mandalay in Myanmar shook the earth to about 800 miles (1,300 km) of Bangkok. Two hard hit cities in Myanmar are images of Naypyidaw, an image of the…
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Not just the Internet: Foresight uses optical fiber to detect structural damage after earthquakes
This experimental setup based on coherence scan interferometry was developed with INRIM. The fiber sensing system integrates sensitive monitoring of environmental and structural signals with micrometer resolution to integrate photonic and optoelectronic components that match optical fibers. Credit: inrim A new method based on optical interferometry is to monitor the structural damage of earthquake-hit buildings in real time, and is…
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Research emigrates as a danger factor for earthquakes and identifies the quality of houses.
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain Most of the earthquakes collide into the fire circle. This is a volcanic string and structural activity that wraps the Pacific coastline. However, when an earthquake strikes, the area that experiences the strongest shaking is not always the largest damage. In the fall of 1999, it caused a large -scale damage in Taiwan and adopted a…
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Two of the deadliest earthquakes in history occurred on January 17th.
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Two of the 10 deadliest earthquakes in recorded history occurred on January 17th. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. Southern California’s Northridge earthquake occurred just one year earlier, in 1994. The two earthquakes killed 6,400 people, injured 45,000, and left 500,000 homeless. “These two events were seminal for the engineering and…
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Other Sciences
Saturday’s quote: Cold dark matter takes a hit. A new paradigm in biology. those fracking earthquakes
This image shows a small portion of the field observed by NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the Cosmic Evolution and Early Emission Science (CEERS) study. It’s full of galaxies. Some galaxies grew so large and so quickly that simulations seem unable to explain them. But new research has found that some of these early…
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Are splay faults the “gateways” that trigger great continental transform earthquakes?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The five largest continental transform earthquakes since 2000 have all occurred on tributaries of the main fault, and the two researchers predict that the next big earthquake of this type will also occur on a tributary or branch fault. Last year’s magnitude 7.8 Pazarchik earthquake in Turkey was one of several large, damaging earthquakes caused by…
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