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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A New Satellite Material Comes Out of the Woodwork
With lessons learned from their first attempt, Kyoto University scientists hope a second CubeSat made of magnolia will spark an age of wooden spacecraft.
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Creep Cavitation May Lead to Earthquake Nucleation
Ultramylonites, rocks of ultrafine grainsize, bring records of nanometer-scale cavities generated at the base of seismogenic crust along Japan’s largest on‐land fault.
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Asteroid Samples Suggest a Solar System of Ancient, Salty Incubators
The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early solar system.
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Cyclic Opening of Deep Fractures Regulates Plate Boundary Slip
Seismic anisotropy changes through time suggest that cyclical opening of fluid-filled fractures is synchronized with subduction zone slow slip events.
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Landslides in Art Part 35 – Landslide in Front of the Hodogaya Tunnel on the Tōkaidō (1924) by Oda Kanchō
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. It is over three years since I last posted in my series on Landslides in Art – an unintended gap. For those who are interested, previous editions can be found on the […]
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Hiroshima Fallout May Offer a Glimpse of the Early Solar System
Bits of glass called Hiroshimaites may have formed by processes similar to those that formed the Sun and the planets.
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Plate Boundaries May Experience Higher Temperature and Stress Than We Thought
Surface heat flux data shed light on conditions deep below Earth’s surface, at a tectonic plate interface where major earthquakes initiate.
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Japan’s SLIM Spacecraft Lands on the Moon
The mission hopes to advance space exploration using a lightweight lander and a high-precision landing system.
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Landslides from the 1 January 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake in Japan
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 1 January 2024, the Mw=7.5 Noto Peninsula Earthquake struck the Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan. AS of the time of writing, 168 people are known to have lost their lives, whilst up […]