A new study by researchers from Hiroshima University published on April 5 in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America introduced a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-based technique for estimating site amplification factors from data on ambient vibrations or…
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 keep new ones at bay
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 Edo Period Earthquake
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…
Geologists take Earth’s inner temperature using erupted sea glass
BY Jennifer Chu CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- If the Earth’s oceans were drained completely, they would reveal a massive chain of undersea volcanoes snaking around the planet. This sprawling ocean ridge system is a product of overturning…