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A greenish lake sits in front of a snow-topped mountain under a cloud-filled sky.
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Glacial Lakes Can Unleash Deadly Deluges. How Risky Are They?

by Cheryl Katz 21 March 202321 March 2023

Breaches in glacial lake dams threaten millions around the world, and scientists are investigating how climate change might affect that risk.

Satellite image of tan whisps of clouds over green land. There is brown land to the right and blue ocean to the left.
Posted inNews

Extreme Wildfires Make Their Own Weather

by Elise Cutts 8 March 202313 March 2023

Extreme fires in the western United States and Southeast Asia influenced the local weather in ways that make fires and smoke pollution worse.

Aerial photo of the San Andreas Fault
Posted inNews

Accounting for Offbeat Earthquakes Could Improve Forecasts

by Erin Martin-Jones 2 March 20232 March 2023

A new model considers the full history of earthquakes on a fault, improving forecasts of when the next will strike.

A vineyard growing on a mountain slope with several other mountains visible in the background
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Scientists Decipher the Seismic Dance of the Southern Alps

by Morgan Rehnberg 20 January 202320 January 2023

Most of the Alps are considered tectonically dead, but according to new research, the southeastern region—home to prosecco wine—is very much alive.

View of a house surrounded by floodwaters, with a piece of wood topped by a small United States flag floating in the foreground.
Posted inScience Updates

Engineering with Nature to Face Down Hurricane Hazards

by Krystyna Powell, Safra Altman and James Marshall Shepherd 5 January 202323 February 2023

Natural and engineered, nature-based structures offer promise for storm-related disaster risk reduction and flood mitigation, as long as researchers can adequately monitor and study them.

Satellite image of Earth showing the atmospheric plume blanketing the Pacific after the underwater eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai
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Social Media Posts Reveal Human Responses to Deadly Tongan Eruption

by Erin Martin-Jones 14 December 202214 December 2022

Quantifying human responses to natural disasters could improve preparation for future threats, scientists say.

Leola Rutherford, dressed in a pink shirt and maroon vest, sits at a roundtable with ANGLE workshop attendees. Two participants are operating earthquake machines.
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Geohazard Education Trainings Foster Resilience in Rural Alaska

by Anna Marie Yanny 13 December 202215 December 2022

National Science Foundation-funded teacher and community workshops boost disaster preparedness optimism among coastal Alaskan educators, whose communities face an array of natural hazards.

A 2017 landslide in Freetown, Sierra Leone, killed an estimated 1,100 residents, largely in informal settlements.
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Protecting Poor Neighborhoods from Landslide Risk

by J. Besl 8 December 202225 January 2023

As low-income, informal settlements bloom in the tropics, their risk of landslides increases. A new modeling tool incorporates urbanization factors to protect the region’s poorest neighborhoods.

A GPS sensor sits atop the edge of a rocky cliff overlooking a steep slope down to water in the distance.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Enhancing Earthquake Detection from Orbit

by Sarah Stanley 2 December 20222 December 2022

A new application of machine learning boosts scientists’ ability to use data from satellite navigation systems to detect and warn of earthquakes.

Tres rescatistas, vestidos en color naranja, buscan entre los escombros de un edificio caído. Detrás del edificio caído hay otro edificio de ladrillos rojos, el cual aún se encuentra de pie, pero tiene algunas paredes dañadas.
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¿Tienen los terremotos y las placas tectónicas una relación bidireccional?

by Tim Hornyak 3 October 20224 October 2022

Un terremoto catastrófico en Turquía que sucedió en 1999 cambió el movimiento de la placa de Anatolia, según un estudio que podría modificar los fundamentos de modelamiento de los terremotos.

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