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The 4.4 magnitude earthquake in L.A. causes scientific surprise
After the 5.5 quake in Chino Hills in 2008, another significant event occurred at 4.4 at 6:25am on Monday March 17, in Encino. The USGeological Survey (USGS) reported that the earthquake was ...
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Can shale fracking be responsible for Ohio's recent seismic activity?
- Mar, 12, 2014
- Other News Seismic Rock Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance
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- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The area of Youngstown, Ohio had never experienced earthquakes, up until 2011 where about 109 minor seismic events were recorded, initiating relative research on behalf of the Geophysical Researc...
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Cephalonia earthquake, preliminary damage observations from Geoengineer.org's geotechnical engineer
One of Geoengineer.org's geotechnical engineers visited the island of Cephalonia,Greece, only two days after the second earthquake event (M=5.8), which caused extended damage mainly in the Lixouri pe...
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Buildings prone to cliff collapse are being demolished in Port Hills, Christchurch
- Jan, 26, 2014
- Other News Landslides Earthquake Reconnaissance Aerial
- Port Hills Road, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Many rockfalls and landslides were triggered by a severe earthquake in Christchurch in 2011, resulting in many damaged homes. Last Sunday the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) released a...
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New research shows how faults warn us before a big earthquake
- Jan, 14, 2014
- Other News Earthquake Reconnaissance Earthquake Reconnaissance
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A new research published in the Geophysical Research Letters journal last November, provides an insight into how earthquake warning signals are produced by faults. To do so, laboratory exper...
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New study shows 16 earthquakes were triggered by landslide
- Jan, 06, 2014
- Other News Earthquake Reconnaissance Landslides
- Bingham Canyon, UT, United States
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The landslide at the Bingham Canyon copper mine that occurred last April, near Salt Lake City in Utah, seems to be the largest non-volcanic landslide in North America in modern times, with almost 65 m...
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Texas study shows gas injection a probable suspect of creating earthquakes
- Nov, 04, 2013
- Other News Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance
- Snyder, TX, United States
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The goal of the study, published last Monday in the science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was to investigate earthquakes greater than magnitude 3 of the period between 2006...
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Philippines landslides induced by earthquake
- Oct, 15, 2013
- Other News Landslides Liquefaction Engineering Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance
- Bohol, Central Visayas, Philippines
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Landslides, sinkholes, floods, liquefaction and earthquake deformation were some of the disastrous results of the M 7.1 earthquake that struck the island of Bohol on 15 October 2013. According to t...
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Pakistan earthquake forms a new island
- Sep, 24, 2013
- Other News Earthquake Reconnaissance Erosion
- Awārān, Balochistan, Pakistan
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
An earthquake (Mw 7.7) occurred on Tuesday in south-central Pakistan resulting in 400 deaths, many injuries and a new island! The movement of the tectonic plates is the main reason of the quake ass...
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Method predicting the size of past earthquakes: is it reliable?
- Sep, 23, 2013
- Other News Earthquake Reconnaissance Settlements
- 61907 Seven Devils Road P.O. 5417 Charleston, OR 97420
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Researchers have tried to estimate the frequency of earthquakes in the past in order to indicate possible earthquakes in the future. To do so researchers of Oregon provided a method to correlate the s...
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