New study shows that the storage of water produced from oil and gas exploitation using hydraulic fracturing is correlated with earthquake hazard. Petroleum industry produces about 10 times mor...
Read MoreScientists have attempted to shed light on the earthquake vulnerability of the area around New Madrid, Missouri. About 200 years ago, the aforementioned region experienced a sequence of massive (ab...
Read MoreA study reveals that the greatest risk of hydropower development in the Himalayas, one of the most beneficial regions for this energy resource, is landslides triggered by earthquakes. In spring of...
Read MoreResearchers at UC Santa Cruz found that bigger and more distant earthquakes can occur when injecting fluid into sedimentary rock than into the underlying basement rock. The evidence from this study...
Read MoreA research from scientists at Oregon State University shows that a severe earthquake can cause other quakes on the opposite side of the planet. The study, published in 2 of August 2018 (see at...
Read MoreAccording 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...
Read MoreScientists 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...
Read MoreScientists 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...
Read MoreAfter a huge crack made an appearance in the south-western Kenya, the question that lies is whether Africa is slowly splitting apart. The lithosphere, which is the rigid outermost shell of a planet...
Read MoreFollowing the Kilauea's volcano eruption (in May 3rd) events, another threat has been added for the residents of Big Island in Hawaii. Lava has recently reached the ocean producing a hazardous mix...
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