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Search on for past tsunamis
Relics of the 2004 tsunami on the coast of South Andaman Island. Image via Wikipedia Spurred by the horrific scenes and death toll wrought by tsunamis following the 26 December 2004 Sumatran and 11...
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Within-plate earthquakes
Recent earthquakes in the US mid-west around New Madrid Missouri. Image via Wikipedia Almost all devastating earthquakes within living memory and the tsunamis that ensued from some of them have...
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Erosion by jostling
Inca dry stone wall in Sacsayhuamán fortress, Cusco, Peru (credit: Håkan Svensson via Wikipedia) These days it is a rare thing for an entirely novel surface process to be discovered; two centuries of...
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Birth of a plate boundary rocks the planet
Historical seismicity across the Sunda trench(credit: Wikipedia) Few people will fail to remember the Indian Ocean tsunamis of 26 December 2004 because of their quarter-million death toll. The...
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Una parodia della giustizia?
Damage caused by the L’ Aquila earthquake of 6 April 2009. (credit: Reuters) Lying above a destructive plate margin, albeit a small one, Italy is prone to earthquakes. Seismometers detect a great many...
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Assessing submarine great-earthquake statistics fails
Geologists who study turbidites assume that the distinctive graded beds from which they are constructed and a range of other textures represent flows of slurry down unstable steep slopes when submarine...
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How the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami happened
Railway locomotive thrown aside by the 11 March 2011 Tsunami in Japan. (credit: Wikipedia) The great Tohoku earthquake (moment magnitude 9.0) of 11 March 2011 beneath the Pacific Ocean off the largest...
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Earthquake hazard news
Assessments of seismic risk have relied until recently on records of destructive earthquakes going back centuries and their relationship to tectonic features, mainly active faults. They usually predict...
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Seismic menace of the Sumatra plate boundary
More than a decade after the 26 December 2004 Great Aceh Earthquake and the Indian Ocean tsunamis that devastating experience and four more lesser seismic events (> 7.8 Magnitude) have show a...
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Earthquakes in Nepal
The magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake hit much of the Himalayan state of Nepal on 25 April 2015, to be followed by one of magnitude 7.3 150 km to the east 18 days later. As would have happened in any...
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