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Different scenarios influencing plate thickness
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Frequency Dependent Plates

by T. W. Becker 16 October 202015 October 2020

Rocks stretch, break, and flow, depending on how and under which conditions they are loaded. A new formulation to better capture Earth’s rheology is explored in the context of plate thickness.

A plot showing the calculated ranges of temperature and strain rate at which earthquakes occur, based on the depth range of earthquakes recorded by local networks of land or ocean bottom seismometers
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Strain Rate: The Overlooked Control on Earthquake Depth

by R. E. Abercrombie and J. Escartin 20 August 20201 October 2021

Regional strain rate may play as significant a role as temperature in governing the depth distribution of earthquakes in mantle lithosphere.

Figuring showing thickness of the crust in the High Arctic and Circum-Arctic regions
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Revealing the Arctic Crust

by Claudio Faccenna 25 July 20191 October 2021

A new model, ArcCRUST, reveals with unprecedent resolution the geometry and the thermal state of the oceanic crust of the High Arctic and Circum-Arctic domain.

The Sun peeks over a ridge near the top of Mount Kinabalu in northern Borneo.
Posted inScience Updates

Deciphering the Fate of Plunging Tectonic Plates in Borneo

by S. Pilia, N. Rawlinson, A. Gilligan and F. Tongkul 28 May 201928 September 2021

What happens when subduction stops? A team of scientists installed a dense seismic network in Borneo to investigate causes and consequences of subduction termination.

Posted inScience Updates

Extending Recent Seismic Imaging Successes to South America

by K. M. Ward, J. R. Delph and S. L. Beck 28 April 201628 April 2016

Ambient Noise Tomography Workshop (MIMOSA); Tucson, Arizona, 17–23 January 2016

Satellite image of the island of Hawaii.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Hole in Earth’s Surface

by W. Yan 26 April 201628 September 2021

Research shows that a broken lithosphere underneath the island of Hawai'i could explain the island's patterns of seismic activity.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Aftershocks of Old Quakes Still Shake New Madrid Seismic Zone

by L. Strelich 24 November 20151 October 2021

Geodetic data show that earthquakes in 1450 and 1811–1812 may be responsible for present-day seismic activity in the region.

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