Tag: Plate Tectonics

Credit: Bruce Houghton The unprecedented cost of the 2018 Kilauea eruption in Hawai'i reflects the intersection of distinct physical and ...

Team awarded 2.5 million CPU hours on NSF-funded supercomputer to conduct researchCredit: University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and ...

National Science Foundation, Dell Technologies and Intel support extra capacity for emergency responsesCredit: TACC Frontera -- the 9th fastest supercomputer ...

Climate shift may have aided herbivores on a 6,500-mile trekCredit: Lars Clemmensen A new paper refines estimates of when herbivorous ...

Are super-Earths capable of creating conditions that are hospitable for life to arise and thrive?Credit: Image is courtesy of Yingwei ...

Supercomputer-powered framework developed by SCEC provides new view of seismic hazardCredit: Kevin Milner, University of Southern California Massive earthquakes are, ...

Credit: Mikael Wallerstedt Countries where massive natural hazard events occur frequently are not more likely than others to make changes ...

Analysis of Steamboat Geyser also finds relationship between column height and reservoir depthCredit: UC Berkeley photo by Mara Reed When ...

Credit: Public Domain Megathrust earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis that originate in subduction zones like Cascadia -- Vancouver Island, Canada, to ...

University of Tsukuba researchers have developed a state-of-the-art model, which has revealed major complexity in rupture processes even in simple ...

Third Pole rose to modern height much later than previously thoughtCredit: TPE As the roof of the world, the Third ...

Publication in Science: International team researches the limits of lifeCredit: Photo: JAMSTEC At what depth beneath the seabed does it ...

Credit: University of Nottingham A remote monitoring tool to help authorities manage public safety and environmental issues in recently abandoned ...

Study offers clues about the fate of tectonic plates that sink deep in Earth's mantleCredit: Courtesy of Rice University HOUSTON ...

Credit: Rina Andrianasolo The African continent is slowly separating into several large and small tectonic blocks along the diverging East ...

Credit: Pixabay International research led by geologists from Curtin University has found that a volcanic province in the Indian Ocean ...

New drone technology improves ability to forecast volcanic eruptionsCredit: Matthew Wordell Specially-adapted drones developed by an international team have been ...

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba conducted detailed measurements of rocks formed by seismic slips in an exposed subduction zone ...

Credit: Pixabay Stromboli, the 'lighthouse of the Mediterranean', is known for its low-energy but persistent explosive eruptions, behaviour that is ...

First-of-its-kind international study is rooted in 17 million year-old whale fossilCredit: Isaiah Nengo STONY BROOK, NY, (Under Embargo until September ...