Tag: Plate Tectonics

Credit: Virginia Tech In a newly published paper, Virginia Tech geoscientists have found that shallow wastewater injection -- not deep ...

Credit: Vicki Daniels, Geophysical Institute The Alaska Science Pod was created to give voice to the people tackling big scientific ...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. --A new study found overlooked tsunami hazards related to undersea, near-shore strike-slip ...

This threatens with sudden destruction of coastal cities and numerous human casualtiesCredit: UrFU / Grigory Tkachenko An international team of ...

Credit: IOCAS Earthquakes and volcanoes in subduction zones may cause great human catastrophe. Previous studies on subduction zone structure and ...

Credit: Michael Kendall/ University of Oxford At the Seismological Society of America's 2021 Annual Meeting, researchers shared how they are ...

Hidden structures reveal 13 million years of seafloor spreadingCredit: GEOMAR It is 2,250 kilometers long, but only 355 kilometers wide ...

Credit: Image courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Volcanic eruptions deep in our oceans are capable of extremely ...

Findings point way toward more detailed earthquake predictionsCredit: Jamie Howarth/Victoria University of Wellington A new study finds a naturally occurring ...

The research shows that current methods used for calculating stress received by the underground pipelines during an earthquake are incorrect.Credit: ...

Credit: Dr Evgenia Ilyinskaya Respiratory disease increased markedly following one of Iceland's largest volcanic eruptions, a new study has found. ...

Weathering of rocks can bind or release carbon dioxide -- in active mountain ranges, carbon-dioxide release strongly dominatesCredit: Kristen Cook ...

Research team led by the University of Göttingen discovers crater floor sagging from bowl-shaped volcanic ash layerCredit: Gernot Arp, University ...

2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano in Hawai'i provided scientists with an unprecedented opportunity to identify new factors that could help ...

Curtin University research has uncovered the first solid clues about the very beginning of the supercontinent cycle of Earth, finding ...

Credit: EXP 351 Science Team A new type of rock created during large and exceptionally hot volcanic eruptions has been ...

A University of Tsukuba research team find that the irregular behavior of the conjugate fault system responsible for the 2018 ...

IODP Expedition 386 focuses on the record of giant earthquakes of the past preserved in deep marine sedimentsCredit: Credits © ...

Credit: Hanika Rizo New research led by the University of Cambridge has found rare evidence - preserved in the chemistry ...

New method for more accurately estimating the location of tectonic tremors in deep ocean faults could help to better understand ...