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Earthquake magnitude can be mitigated due to ground water pressure

According to scientists from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, pressurized ground water can reduce the intensity of seismic events. Undergroun...

New efficient laboratory test to determine soil productivity

Scientists at The Ohio State University and Cornell University have found a way to measure the health (productivity) of soils. The health of soils is very important when it comes to growing crops....

Reconstructing the 1929 Grand Banks underwater avalanche

In a research from the University of Liverpool the 1929 Grand Banks underwater avalanche was reconstructed to better understand these common geohazards. The avalanche was triggered by the Mw 7.2 Gr...

Savings in removing over repairing dams

Dam removal has become a mainstream option for dam safety management restoring river, coastal ecosystems and the human communities that depend on them. Researchers from Portland State University re...

Volcano sounds could help scientists monitor its activity

Scientists have come up with a new method of analysis, and the secret lies with an eerie phenomenon we can best describe as 'volcano music'. A volcano in Ecuador, called Cotopaxi, with a deep cylin...

East Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated little during past 8 million years

Large parts of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet did not retreat significantly during a time when carbon dioxide concentrations were similar to today's levels. Three major ice sheets are being closely w...

Increased seismic hazard due to Earth's rotation slowdown

Scientists from the U.S. believe that a significant increase of earthquakes will occur beginning from 2018. Their predictions are correlated with the deceleration of the Earth's spin velocity, a ph...

Moon is making the days on Earth longer

A study shows evidence that as the distance between Earth and the moon increases year by year, the days are getting longer. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison claim that moon c...

A new underlying mechanism in deadly 7.1R quake in Taiwan in 1906 has been uncovered

The earthquake was one of the deadliest to ever strike the country The earthquake was one of the deadliest to ever strike the country The 1906 Meishan earthquake, named after the village near wher...

''Snowball Earth'' triggered by the advent of plate tectonics?

During the Neoproterozoic, a geological era which occurred about 542 million to one billion years ago, Earth experienced unusual episodes of global cooling that geologists refer to as ''Snowball Earth...

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