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New study links Raton Basin earthquakes to oil and gas wastewater injections

A series of earthquakes between 2008 and 2010 in the Raton Basin - along the southern Colorado and northern New Mexico border – was likely due to fluids pumped underground during oil and gas wastewate...

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Scientists explore underwater active seismic fault

The international team of scientists just finished exploring the seabed of the Pacific Ocean, offshore Alaska and British Columbia, in an effort to understand better the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fa...

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Scientists in Japan improve seismic resistance of metals

Researchers at Japan's Tohoku University have come up with a cheap way to improve the properties of some 'shape memory' alloys, often used in earthquake design due to their ability to return to their...

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Kaikoura Earthquake responsible for “slow motion” quakes in New Zealand

The 7.8 magnitude quake that hit New Zealand's South Island in November 2016, is responsible for a series of large slow slip events, according to a new study led by scientists at the University of Tex...

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Can satellites be used as an early warning system for landslides?

A joint team of researchers from Newcastle University (UK), Chengdu University of Technology, Tongji University, China Academy of Space Technology and Wuhan University (China) are working on the use o...

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We present you the results of the "Geotechnical Business Confidence Survey" by GeoWorld, for the 2nd quarter of 2017!

GeoWorld, the online professional networking site for geotechnical engineers and associated fields supported by the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), is p...

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We present you the results of the "Geotechnical Business Confidence Survey" by GeoWorld, for the 3nd quarter of 2017!

GeoWorld, the online professional networking site for geotechnical engineers and associated fields supported by the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), is p...

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We present you the results of the "Geotechnical Business Confidence Survey" by GeoWorld, for the 4th quarter of 2017!

GeoWorld, the online professional networking site for geotechnical engineers and associated fields supported by the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), is p...

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We present you the results of the "Geotechnical Business Confidence Survey" by GeoWorld!

GeoWorld, the online professional networking site for geotechnical engineers and associated fields supported by the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), is p...

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New early warning system could have saved lives during the 2011 Japan tsunami

Simulations assessing how the system would have responded to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake show that a tsunami alarm would have been raised in 7 minutes or less, thus might had saved many of the 22,000 k...

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