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The Secret Spire rock formation, or hoodoo, in Moab, Utah.
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Rock Music in Utah

by Robin Donovan 3 May 20223 May 2022

Three-dimensional models could help forecast rock tower frequencies—and seismic impacts—around the globe.

Gradual fault creep can be seen deforming the walls of this stadium at the University of California, Berkeley.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Earthquake Modelers Unite to Compare and Improve Code

by Sarah Stanley 2 May 20222 May 2022

International community–driven efforts lend confidence to fault-slip simulations while highlighting key discrepancies.

Perspective plot looking west across the Hikurangi margin (New Zealand) at the 3 km/s S-velocity isosurface contoured in depth.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Adjoint Tomography Illuminates Hikurangi Margin Complexity

by Michael Bostock 21 April 202226 April 2022

Waveform inversion of regional earthquakes reveals velocity anomalies interpreted as subducting seamounts that control an enigmatic segmentation in plate coupling along the Hikurangi margin.

Two men stand in a room. The man on the left points to a Raspberry Shake seismometer, the small box on the floor.
Posted inNews

Community Science Builds a Seismic Network in Haiti

by Fionna M. D. Samuels 19 April 202219 April 2022

Small, inexpensive seismometers are capable of sharing high-quality data in real time—and were put to the test during an August 2021 earthquake.

Three rescue workers search through the rubble of a building destroyed by the 1999 Izmit earthquake in Turkey.
Posted inNews

Do Earthquakes and Tectonic Plates Have a Two-Way Relationship?

by Tim Hornyak 18 April 202218 April 2022

A catastrophic earthquake in Turkey in 1999 changed the motion of the Anatolian plate, according to a study that could change the fundamentals of quake models.

宾夕法尼亚州诺里斯敦的洪水
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ICON原则作为自然灾害研究工具未被充分利用

by Rachel Fritts 14 April 202214 April 2022

科学家们探讨了将整合的、连接的、开放的和网络化的研究战略应用于自然灾害研究的困难和机会。

Camino dañado por un terremoto en Calexico, California, 2010. El camino muestra grietas en el pavimento. Al fondo se observa un edificio de una planta cercado y el cielo azul.
Posted inNews

Buscando terremotos en la ionosfera

by Nathaniel Scharping 28 March 202228 March 2022

Los terremotos pueden liberar ráfagas de energía eléctrica que se pueden sentir en la ionosfera, a kilómetros por encima de la Tierra. Sin embargo, la teoría sigue siendo controvertida.

Tree-lined cliffs and hills rise from a coastal beach where ocean waves gently wash ashore.
Posted inFeatures

Exploring Subduction Zone Geohazards on Land and at Sea

by Mong-Han Huang, Kristin Morell, Alison Duvall, Sean F. Gallen and George E. Hilley 25 March 202220 May 2022

A new initiative is bringing together scientists to address fundamental questions about subduction zone geohazards, using the latest advances in observation technology and computational resources.

Two people stand on the edge of a road, looking at a straight crack, representing the surface trace of a fault, the cuts across the road and offsets its painted centerline.
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Striking Out into the Field to Track Slip on the Sumatran Fault

by Karen Lythgoe, Umar Muksin, Arifullah, Andrean Simanjuntak and Shengji Wei 16 March 202221 April 2022

An international team overcame many challenges, including from the COVID-19 pandemic, to deploy a dense seismic network along an understudied fault system that poses hazards to millions in Indonesia.

Aerial view looking over a coastal island city
Posted inFeatures

A Cagey Approach to Speedy and Safe Seafloor Deployments

by Pascal Pelleau, Ronan Apprioual, Antony Ferrant and Daniel Aslanian 11 March 202228 April 2022

Researchers devised a simple way to deliver ocean bottom seismometers accurately to the seafloor to study ongoing seismic and volcanic activity near the islands of Mayotte.

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