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Research Spotlights
Research spotlights are plain-language summaries of recent articles published in AGU’s suite of 24 journals.
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How Fault Surface Features Can Tell Us About Future Earthquakes
A new study suggests ways to quantify fault maturity, a property that affects earthquake characteristics.
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Faults in Oceanic Crust Contribute to Slow Seismic Waves
New high-sampling rate measurements of fluid pressures in oceanic crust reveal unresolved fractures and pathways for fluid flow.
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Capturing How Fast the Arctic Ocean Is Gaining Fresh Water
A new analysis suggests that models do not accurately capture how fresh Arctic surface waters mix with deeper waters, contributing to underestimation of Arctic surface freshening.
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Rock Structure Explains Slow Seismic Waves
New findings contrast with a prevailing hypothesis for low seismic velocity in subduction zones.
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Faulting and Folding Signals in Seismic Data
A novel numerical model simulates folding in Earth’s crust throughout the earthquake cycle.
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The Far-Reaching Consequences of Wildfire Smoke Plumes
Smoke from wildfires burning in the western United States carries harmful pollutants across the country.
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Improving Coseismic Slip Measurements
A physics-based method estimates the duration of earthquakes’ coseismic phase and can help improve the precision of coseismic slip models and magnitude estimates.