Oceanography, Vol. 27, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE ON Undersea Natural Hazards (JUNE 2014), pp. 118-131 (14 pages) ABSTRACTContinental transform boundaries cross heavily populated regions and are associated ...
Woods Hole, Mass. (April 11, 2025) - Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based on the evidence. In a new article published in ...
Along submarine mountain ranges, the mid-ocean ridges, forces from the Earth's interior push tectonic plates apart, forming new ocean floor and thus moving continents about. However, many features of ...
(CBS SF) — The U.S. Geological Survey upgraded a strong earthquake which struck in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean Friday morning to a magnitude of 7.1. The quake was first reported with a magnitude ...
Scientists have completed a new analysis of an earthquake fault line that extends some 200 miles off the southern and central Oregon coast that they say is more active than the San Andreas Fault in ...
The Blanco Transform Fault Zone off of Oregon's coast is famously active, and it has not disappointed in the past 24 hours, generating at least 50 earthquakes, including two at a 5.8 magnitude. That ...
Major faults like the San Andreas strike fear of producing devastating earthquakes. But scientists have found that little-known 'branch' faults, minor faults that stem from larger ones, could release ...
An earthquake of Magnitude 7.7 shook the coast of Jamaica on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). It was followed by another 6.5 Magnitude earthquake to the west near the ...
People have known for centuries that some regions of the world are more prone to earthquakes than others. In some locations, large earthquakes occur frequently enough for residents to experience ...
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