January 5, 2012
Natural gas production linked to earthquakes in Texas
A saltwater disposal well, a part of the natural gas production process, may have been responsible for triggering a series of minor earthquakes …
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January 5, 2012
Moonquake mystery deepens
Between 1969 and 1972, five Apollo missions installed seismic stations at their landing sites on the nearside of the moon. Because the moon was …
January 5, 2012
Mag.-8.9 quake strikes Japan, tsunami heads for Hawaii
A powerful magnitude-8.9 earthquake struck near the eastern coast of Honshu, Japan, today at 2:46 p.m. local time. The quake sent a tsunami …
January 5, 2012
Japan's megaquake and killer tsunami: How did this happen?
On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 p.m. local time, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake ruptured a 500-kilometer-long fault zone off the northeast coast of Japan. …
January 5, 2012
Hazardous Living: Italian seismologists on trial for manslaughter
Last June, EARTH reported that seven Italian scientists were under investigation and might be charged with manslaughter for not predicting (and …
January 5, 2012
Hazardous Living: Geologists to be charged for not predicting earthquake?
News out of Italy suggests that seven researchers who did not predict the L’Aquila earthquake in April 2009 are under formal investigation and …
January 5, 2012
Don't forget about the Christchurch earthquake: Lessons learned from disaster
In the aftermath of the devastating magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami that struck the Tohoku region of Japan on March 11, attention quickly …
January 5, 2012
Creeping faults warn of impending earthquakes?
Earthquakes strike out of nowhere — one minute everything is perfectly calm, and the next minute, the ground shakes violently and buildings …
January 5, 2012
Blogging on EARTH: FEMA's plans for New Madrid
This year is the 200th anniversary of the New Madrid quakes, the series of magnitude-7 to -8 earthquakes that rocked parts of Missouri and …