Chill Out, No One Can Predict Earthquakes—Including Japan
Why It’s So Darn Hard to Build a Fast Quake Warning System
Mount St. Helens Is Recharging Its Magma Stores, Setting Off Earthquake Swarms
The Hunt for Secret Nuclear Tests Digs Up Scientific Gold
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization exists to detect and thus deter testing of new nuclear weapons. Absent power to actually do that, the CTBTO has to prove its worth in other ways. So it’s courting scientists.
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More Than 200 Earthquakes Just Rattled California
A swarm of over 200 small quakes has shaken the notoriously earthquake prone region over the past week.
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It’s Official: The Supermoon Won’t Set Off Earthquakes
We always hear about the destruction that the supermoon will bring, but planetary alignments likely only play a very small role in generating earthquakes and eruptions on Earth.
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California Probably Isn’t in the Midst of a Quake Swarm
Last week's San Andreas quake probably had nothing to do with today's Hayward shaker. But that doesn't mean the quake risk is over.
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Nepal’s Quake May Have Primed the Area for Another Big One
According to a paper, the Nepal earthquake may have made another quake even more likely.
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