More than 37,000 small earthquakes paint a picture of the fault’s behavior and seismic potential.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
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New Thermodynamic Model for Computing Mantle Mineralogy
A newly developed open-access software package called MMA-EoS can calculate whole mantle mineralogy in multicomponent systems by Gibbs energy minimization.
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Using Radar to Understand How Volcanic Eruptions Evolve
Radar satellite imagery can be used to measure constructional changes in the topography of long-lived volcanoes, according to a new study of Ecuador’s El Reventador volcano.
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Testing a New Tool That Illuminates Tiny Fractures in Coal
A computational model outperforms a widely used microcomputed tomography imaging method in characterizing coal fractures.
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What Feeds Indonesia’s Destructive Mud Eruption?
New advances in seismic investigations suggest links in plumbing between nearby magma volcanoes and a mud-erupting system that has been spewing for more than a decade.
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The Curious Case of the Ultradeep 2015 Ogasawara Earthquake
Unusual ground motion associated with the deepest major earthquake in the seismological record is due to both its great depth and its origin away from the subducting slab.
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Probing the Grain-Scale Processes That Drive Plate Tectonics
New experimental data suggest that rock composition may play a critical role in forming and perpetuating shear zones.
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Looking Inside an Active Italian Volcano
Scientists use 3-D imaging to reveal Solfatara crater’s inner plumbing.
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Tracing Water’s Path Through the Santa Clara Valley Aquifer
In an increasingly drought prone climate, scientists study the impacts of drought on aquifer systems.
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A New Baseline to Monitor Earth’s Dynamic Surface
Researchers devise a new mathematical approach to combine space- and ground-based observations into an alternative reference frame for monitoring the changing positions of Earth’s features.