MUNICH – A wildfire followed by an intense rainstorm is often a recipe for disaster. Without vegetation to cushion rainfall, water runoff can turn into a fast-moving, highly destructive landslide, called a “debris flow,” which often…
Using Cell Phone GNSS Networks to Monitor Crustal…
Japanese earth science researchers analyzed the potential of a dense Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) network, which is installed at cell phone base stations, to monitor crustal deformation as an early warning indicator of seismic…
Researchers Discover New Type of Earthquake
A Canadian-German research team has discovered a new type of earthquake with distinctly different characteristics than “conventional” injection-induced quakes. According to Laboratory Equipment, researchers used a network of seismic stations surrounding a hydraulic fracturing well.…
Ocean life helps produce clouds, but existing clouds…
MADISON — Stand on the ocean’s shore and take a big whiff of the salt spray and you’ll smell the unmistakably pungent scent of the sea. That ripe, almost rotting smell? That’s sulfur. Marine plankton…
Historical Village Records Offer Insights into A Deadly…
The picturesque town of Kisakata, located within Nikaho City and 70 kilometers south of Akita City, lies along Japan's northwestern coast and faces out to the Sea of Japan. Here, on July 10, 1804, disaster…