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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…