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NASA Airborne Radar To Study Quake Faults in Haiti Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2010 
In response to the disaster in Haiti on Jan. 12, NASA has added a series of science overflights of earthquake faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola to a previously scheduled three-week airborne radar campaign to Central America.
NASA's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, or UAVSAR, left NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif ... read moreSan Andreas Fault Study Unearths New Quake Data 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 03, 2010Recent collaborative studies of stream channel offsets along the San Andreas Fault by researchers at Arizona State University and UC Irvine reveal new information about fault behavior - affecting how we understand the potential for damaging earthquakes. The researchers' findings encompasses their work at the Carrizo Plain, which is located 100 miles north of Los Angeles and site of the ori ... more
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Haiti must learn to live with earthquakes: experts
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 29, 2010It will be difficult to convince Haitians to spend extra money and rebuild their quake-ravaged country with structures able to withstand another powerful earthquake, experts said Friday. Some 170,000 people were killed in the devastating January 12 quake that toppled weak buildings across the Haitian capital. Two fault lines run under the island of Hispaniola, which Haiti shares with the ... more Haitian who predicted 'big one' calls for evacuation 
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 24, 2010Less than one month before Haiti's devastating earthquake, geologist Claude Prepetit gave the latest in a string of warnings that the "big one" was coming. No one listened. But now he has a fresh message for the authorities after 20 years of shouting into the void - evacuate Port-au-Prince or risk another disaster on scale of the January 12 quake which killed at least 150,000 people. "W ... more Haiti Quake Occurred In Complex Active Seismic Region 
Woods Hole MA (SPX) Jan 21, 2010The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that triggered disastrous destruction and mounting death tolls in Haiti this week occurred in a highly complex tangle of tectonic faults near the intersection of the Caribbean and North American crustal plates, according to a quake expert at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) who has studied faults in the region and throughout the world. Jian Lin ... more Haiti quake was nightmare waiting to happen: scientists 
Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2010The quake that hit Haiti on Tuesday was a killer that had massed its forces for a century and a half before unleashing them against a wretchedly poor country, turning buildings into death traps, experts said on Wednesday. Scientists painted a tableau of horror, where natural forces, ignorance and grinding poverty had conspired to wreak a death toll tentatively estimated by Haitian ... more |
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African Desert Rift Confirmed As New Ocean In The Making
Rochester NY (SPX) Nov 04, 2009In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled apart, but the claim was controversial. Now, scientists from several countries have confirmed that the volcanic processes at work beneath the Ethiopian rift are nearly identical to those ... more Colossal quake may hit Sumatra in 30 years: geologist
Singapore (AFP) Oct 15, 2009A colossal earthquake may hit Indonesia's Sumatra island within 30 years, triggering a tsunami and making last month's deadly temblor look tiny by comparison, a geologist has warned. Kerry Sieh, director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore, said the next big quake would last more than six times as long as the 7.6 magnitude quake which struck western Sumatra on September 30, leveling the ... more Killer earthquakes shake scientific thought 
Sydney (AFP) Oct 11, 2009A sudden cluster of massive earthquakes which has shaken Asia-Pacific communities and likely left thousands dead has also jolted some scientists, who are starting to question conventional thought. Experts who dismissed notions that far-away quakes could be linked are beginning to think again after huge tremors rocked Samoa and Indonesia on the same day, followed by another major convulsion ... more Indonesia quake zone a disaster waiting to happen: scientists 
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Scientists have warned for years that the Indonesian city of Padang is a disaster waiting to happen because of strain on a nearby fault-line. After this week's quake they say worse is still to come. The city on Sumatra island is located between two lines of high seismic activity - the Great Sumatran fault on the mainland to the east, and the Sumatra trench, also called the Sunda trench, und ... more |
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