Megathrust earthquakes: Modeling the long and short of subduction zones
Plates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters per year. But when accumulated stress at these convergent ...
Scientists Found Ancient Tectonic Plates in the Middle of Continents—Where They Shouldn’t Be
The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...
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Strange Blobs Found Deep Inside Earth Where No Such Blobs Should Exist
Waves that ripple from Earth's centre can be used to sense what it's made of, and where those materials might be found.
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Slow But Powerful Fault Slip Can Simply Arise from Fluid Flow
Cyclic changes of fluid pressure in fault zones can induce slow-slip events that advance in the direction of fluid flow, even when the faults are stable.
A Lost World Beneath the Pacific Ocean? Mysterious Structures Discovered Deep Within Earth’s Mantle
Unexpected mantle structures hint at ancient or unknown materials, challenging current tectonic theories and prompting deeper ...
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Former University of Oxford student wins top geoscience award
A former Oxford University student has won a prestigious award for his work in geoscience. Dr Dan Bassett, who completed his ...
Scientists discover 'sunken worlds' hidden deep within Earth's mantle that shouldn't be there
A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...
Sunken worlds under the Pacific? Scientists are BAFFLED by massive structures found deep beneath the ocean that 'shouldn't exist'
Scientists at ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have found massive structures deep beneath the ...
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Lane County retrofitting infrastructure for earthquake resilience
Both Hayden Bridge and the Lane Rink Exchange are going to be seeing retrofits in order to withstand the Cascadia Subduction ...
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Scan Detects Evidence of "Lost World" Under Pacific Ocean
A team of geophysicists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland has made a baffling discovery while analyzing earthquake waves to ...