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Erin Martin-Jones

Map of faults in California with many orientations
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Creeping Faults May Have Simpler Geometries

by Erin Martin-Jones 20 November 202420 November 2024

A recent study offers an alternative perspective on why some fault segments slide smoothly, whereas others get stuck and produce earthquakes.

Foto olhando para o fundo do mar, mostrando pedaços arredondados de lava negra sobre argila vermelha.
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Uma Ilha Tropical Há Muito Perdida Fica no Litoral do Brasil

by Erin Martin-Jones 25 October 202425 October 2024

Um platô vulcânico submerso no sudoeste do Atlântico foi uma ilha tropical há 45 milhões de anos.

Photo of a conifer forest wildfire
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Extreme Wildfires Are Getting More Extreme and Occurring More Often

by Erin Martin-Jones 26 July 202425 July 2024

The world’s most energetic wildfires have doubled in intensity and number over the past 2 decades, with climate change and land management likely to blame.

A coral reef with a shoal of fish swimming
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Moonlit Nights Change a Coral Reef’s Tune

by Erin Martin-Jones 16 April 202417 April 2024

Some reef fish get chattier when the Moon is out, while feisty snapping shrimp and other invertebrates pipe down.

View from a remotely operated vehicle looking down at the seabed, showing rounded lumps of black lava sitting on top of red clay.
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A Long-Lost Tropical Island Lies Off Brazil’s Coast

by Erin Martin-Jones 12 March 202425 October 2024

An undersea volcanic plateau in the southwestern Atlantic was a tropical island 45 million years ago.

Glaciar blanco azulado de superficie irregular, rodeado en primer plano por agua de mar y en el fondo por montañas nevadas de color oscuro.
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El estallido de burbujas acelera el deshielo de los glaciares

by Erin Martin-Jones 28 November 202328 November 2023

Tener en cuenta el efecto burbuja podría mejorar las estimaciones sobre el deshielo de los glaciares submarinos y prever mejor su contracción a medida que se calientan los océanos.

A pipe brings water into a stream.
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Even Treated Sewage Harms Freshwater Ecosystems

by Erin Martin-Jones 15 November 202328 November 2023

In a controlled experiment, researchers diverted wastewater from an advanced treatment facility into a healthy stream and monitored the unfolding ecological effects.

Jagged-surfaced blue-white glacier, surrounded in the foreground by seawater and in the background by dark colored, snowcapped mountains
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Popping Bubbles Make Glaciers Melt Faster

by Erin Martin-Jones 25 October 202328 November 2023

Accounting for the newfound bubble effect could improve estimates of how sea-terminating glaciers melt underwater—and better anticipate their shrinkage as oceans warm.

Photo showing flooded city roads in Thailand. Seven vehicles are driving through the flood waters.
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Paleostorm Chasers Test a New Detection Tool

by Erin Martin-Jones 20 September 202320 September 2023

A method typically used to date sediments shows promise for documenting tropical storms through history—information needed for future projections of storm activity.

A fault segment offset an agricultural field during the Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence.
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The 2023 Türkiye-Syria Earthquakes Shifted Stress in the Crust

by Erin Martin-Jones 24 August 202329 August 2023

In February, a devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the eastern Mediterranean, triggering a second major jolt and a cascade of aftershocks.

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