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Scientific Discipline Plate motions: present and recent

Natural Hazards

Editors' Vox 23 March 2017

Neotectonics and Earthquake Forecasting

The editors of a new book describe the evolution of major earthquake producing fault zones in the eastern Mediterranean region and explore how earthquake forecasting could improve.
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A view from the shores of Palau; near here, the East Asian Sea vanished 10 million years ago

Research Spotlight 3 August 2016

An Ancient Sea Once Separated the Pacific and Indian Oceans

Seafloor under the hypothesized East Asian Sea vanished 10 million years ago as surrounding plates swallowed it up, according to new reconstructions of plate tectonics in the Philippine Sea region.
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aoraki-mount-cook-new-zealand-alpine-fault

Research Spotlight 22 July 2016

Revising the Displacement History of New Zealand's Alpine Fault

A reinterpretation of structural and paleomagnetic data suggests that New Zealand's Alpine Fault accommodates a far greater percentage of geologically recent plate motion than previously thought.
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seismometer deployment offshore New Zealand

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Undersea Data Tie Slow Fault Slip to Tsunami-Causing Quakes

Slow events might help scientists better understand when and why tsunami-generating earthquakes occur.
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Twenty years of ground motion observations show that seismic strain is accumulating south of Istanbul.
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