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‘Triplet’ earthquakes strike near Tohoku, Japan, but a rupture gap remains POSTED ON MARCH 19, 2022 BY TEMBLOR Wednesday’s magnitude-7.3 quake, which shook large parts of Honshu and knocked out power to Tokyo, is the latest in a series of large aftershocks from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. By Shinji...

Strong earthquake increases seismic hazard in Qinghai, China POSTED ON JANUARY 13, 2022 BY TEMBLOR The magnitude-6.6 quake struck near the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. An analysis shows that nearby sections are now closer to failure. By Zhigang Peng, Ph.D., School of Earth and Atmosphe...

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tsunamis' magnetic fields are detectable before sea level change

by American Geophysical Union


https://phys.org/news/2021-12-tsunamis- ... s-sea.html

Swaying mountains By: From the editors | 1 Comment Like bridges and tall buildings, large mountains are constantly vibrating, excited by seismic energy form the Earth. An international team of researchers has now been able to measure the resonant swaying of the Matterhorn and make its motion visibl...

What should you do if you get an earthquake early warning? POSTED ON NOVEMBER 12, 2021 BY TEMBLOR A new study analyzes what is the best advice to give people when an earthquake strikes. The answer depends on where you are among other things, but for the U.S. the advice is: drop, cover, hold on! By ...

Strong earthquake swarm ongoing off Oregon coast POSTED ON DECEMBER 9, 2021 BY TEMBLOR The Pacific Northwest was jolted into the spotlight on Wednesday, when a series of strong earthquakes off the Oregon coast awakened fears of a big one. By Jochen Braunmiller, Ph.D., University of South Florida Ci...

المنتدى الإقليمي العربي الخامس للحد من مخاطر الكوارث ARAB REGIONAL PLATFORMFOR DISASTER REDUCTION [/color] Rabat 2021 MOROCCO ث من الخطر إلى الصمود: تسريع العمل المحلي للحد من مخاطر الكوارث المنتدى الإقليمي العربي الخامس للحد من مخاطر الكوارث ينعقد المنتدى الإقليمي العربي الخامس للحد من مخاطر الكوا...

Newly identified fault in Seal Beach, CA, quietly rattles beneath the city POSTED ON NOVEMBER 8, 2021 BY TEMBLOR A recent high-density seismic survey illuminated the previously unmapped fault and highlighted the challenge of determining earthquake hazard in the Los Angeles Basin. By Dan Gish and St...

Acapulco earthquake struck the edge of a seismic gap POSTED ON NOVEMBER 4, 2021 BY TEMBLOR On September 7, 2021, a strong earthquake struck near Acapulco, Mexico. The earthquake may have increased the likelihood of a larger magnitude earthquake within the Guerrero Seismic Gap. By Hector Gonzalez-Hu...

Earthquake Report: Iraq
Earthquake Report: Iraq | Jay Patton online (earthjay.com)


http://earthjaycom/?p=6709

Regional Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Arab Region 2021 - UNDRR Arab States 28 subscribers SUBSCRIBE The Regional Assessment Report #RARArabStates is an attempt to provide an understanding of the regional risks and progress in risk reduction in the Arab region while highlighti...

The Unsolved Mystery of the Earth Blobs Researchers peering into Earth’s interior found two continent-sized structures that upend our picture of the mantle. What could their existence mean for us back on Earth’s surface? By Jenessa Duncombe27 February 2019 https://eos.org/features/the-unsolved-myst...

Paris, France, International Science Council Geneva, Switzerland, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Monday 4 October 2021 With disasters increasing in intensity, severity and impacts across the globe, improving risk information across all types of hazards is critical to enhance our c...

Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5 °C world • Dan Welsby, • James Price, • Steve Pye & • Paul Ekins Nature volume 597, pages230–234 (2021)Cite this article • 43k Accesses • 1 Citations • 4340 Altmetric • Metricsdetails Abstract Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement pledged to limit global warming to...

RESEARCH ARTICLE| OCTOBER 13, 2021 Seismic Location of the 4 August 2020 Beirut Port Chemical Explosion Hafidh A. A. Ghalib; Gordon Kraft; Abdulmutaleb Alchalbi; Robert Wagner Seismological Research Letters (2021) https://doi.org/10.1785/0220210123 Article history https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ss...