Laboratory earthquakes shed new light on energy partitioning during earthquakes, which is allocated to seismic radiation, creation of new surfaces, and heat dissipation.
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Video Shows Pulsing and Curving Fault Behavior
A chance video captured a fault rupture during March’s devastating Myanmar earthquake, delivering real-time evidence of how major seismic tremors propagate.
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Trapped Charge Techniques Pinpoint Past Fault Slip
Scientists combine two novel dating techniques on fault gouge to better pinpoint the timing and nature of past fault activity in the Eastern Alps.
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Finding the Gap: Seismology Offers Slab Window Insights
Studying slow tremors has helped researchers home in on the youngest part of the Chile Triple Junction’s gap between subducting plates, which offers a window to the mantle.
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How Flexible Enhanced Geothermal Systems Control Their Own Seismicity
A new study maps how microseismicity waxes and wanes with pressure in enhanced geothermal systems, offering a template for managing quakes in future heat-mining projects.
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地震如何改变湖泊微生物群落
提示：地震发生后，湖泊的地质、化学和生物成分会重新配置。一项新的研究深入探讨了地震变化对喜马拉雅地区措普湖的影响。
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The State of Stress in the Nankai Subduction Zone
The Nankai subduction zone, in southern Japan, has hosted several large magnitude 8+ earthquakes during the last three hundred years. But, how stressed is it right now?
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Magnitude-8.8 Earthquake Strikes Western Pacific
One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the eastern coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula Wednesday morning local time. Initially pegged at a magnitude-8.0, the quake was eventually upgraded to a magnitude-8.8. Adjusted magnitude estimates are not unusual for large earthquakes as more data become available.
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Wendy Bohon: Quelling Fears and Sparking Geoscience Joy
This earthquake enthusiast and science communicator wants you to know that a “whole ecosystem” of scientific careers exists outside of academia.
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How Earthquakes Shake Up Microbial Lake Communities
After an earthquake, a lake’s geological, chemical, and biological components get reconfigured. A new study dives into the effects of seismic shifts on the Himalayas’ Lake Cuopu.