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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreLandslides, 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...
Read MoreAn 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...
Read MoreResearchers 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...
Read MoreA Magnitude 8 earthquake created a tsunami that swept through several South Pacific islands last Wednesday. The tsunami killed at least 10 people through 5 villages and was reported to reach 1.5 m in...
Read MoreThe November 10th 2012 Magnitude 4.3 Kentucky earthquake was too deep to be caused by human activities, such as underground mining, the Kentucky Geological Survey announced. The ear...
Read MoreAn Italian court convicted six scientists of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology and a member of the Civil Protection Agency for failing to predict the deadly L’Aquila earthquake. Cnn...
Read MoreA strong earthquake off the coast of Guatemala shook the mountainous region of San Marcos state on Wednesday (November 07), destroying homes, crushing cars and trapping residents under rubble. View th...
Read MoreThe February 27, 2010 Maule, Chile earthquake (Mw = 8.8) is the fifth largest earthquake to occur since 1900. Its effects were felt along 600 km of the central Chile coast. The earthquake tested nume...
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