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

Scientists using ground-penetrating radar equipment
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Testing a Machine Learning Approach to Geophysical Inversion

by Morgan Rehnberg 1 April 20221 April 2022

Variational autoencoders can be leveraged to provide an effective method of inversion that is both accurate and computationally efficient.

Aerial view of an ice stupa in Ladakh, India.
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Ice Towers May Hold Promise—and Water—for Some Cold, Dry Places

by Carolyn Wilke 1 April 20221 April 2022

A new study that cues into the formation of ice cones for storing glacial meltwater reveals how the structures can be built more efficiently and which climatic conditions work best.

Skyline of the downtown business district of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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New Hazard Exposure Model for Africa

by Munyaradzi Makoni 31 March 202231 March 2022

The rapid pace of urbanization could encroach on hazard-prone regions without adequate land management and building design regulations, a new modeling project shows.

Map of the central-eastern Nepal Himalaya showing the locations of more than 12,800 landslides over a 30-year period.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

History Matters When Gauging Hillslope Susceptibility to Failure

by Matthew Brain 24 March 202212 April 2022

Using susceptibility models to forecast the potential locations of landslides is a key tool in mitigating landslide hazard, but are existing approaches appropriate in dynamic mountainous settings?

A river of molten lava flows across a steaming black basalt landscape. The river flows from a volcanic rift near the top right of the image toward the bottom left. The fissure is filled with brighter and hotter lava and steam and gas billows up from it. The sky on the horizon is a hazy blue-gray.
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The Surprising Greenhouse Gas That Caused Volcanic Summer

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 21 March 202212 April 2022

Extended periods of volcanism known as flood basalt eruptions lead to volcanic winters, which are often followed by an extended period of warming. But it was more than just carbon dioxide that warmed the globe.

Suspended aquaculture in Sanggou Bay
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Coastal Aquaculture Can Reduce Nutrient Transport

by Jack Lee 18 March 20223 May 2022

High-resolution simulations of China’s Sanggou Bay show that suspended aquaculture alters hydrodynamics and weakens transport of nutrients to the area from offshore bottom water.

The Krafla geothermal power station in northern Iceland
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Innovative Model Elucidates Geothermal Energy Resource

by Aaron Sidder 14 March 202214 March 2022

Data from deep wells and a Bayesian modeling framework shed new light on one of Iceland’s valuable geothermal reservoirs.

An image of the Bean (Cloud Gate) located in Millennium Park in Chicago
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Estimating Heat Wave Frequency and Strength: A Chicago Case Study

by Saima Sidik 10 March 202220 April 2022

Numerical modeling shows widespread impacts of the 2012 Chicago heat wave, shedding light on heat wave and urban heat island impacts on the city’s temperature.

Una explosión de luz solar sobre una Tierra nublada.
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Pequeños cambios climáticos podrían verse magnificados por procesos naturales

by Damond Benningfield 1 March 202216 March 2022

Un nuevo estudio utiliza técnicas de modelado para descubrir cómo pequeños incidentes de calentamiento pueden convertirse en eventos hipertermales que duran miles de años.

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