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Video and photo-gallery: 25 years from the Loma Prieta Earthquake

On Friday October 17th, 25 years have passed from the devastating - magnitude 6.9 - Loma Prieta earthquake. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the earthquake, which killed 63 people and left thous...

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Oil facilities in Japan prone to liquefaction after a strong earthquake

Japanese government researchers support that about 43% of the petrochemical complexes on Japan's Pacific coast are likely to be damaged in the event of a feared magnitude-9 earthquake in central and w...

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Strong earthquake hits Greece and Turkey, injuring hundreds

A strong earthquake hit at 12:25 local time, Saturday May 24th, in the Aegean Sea, with the epicenter located southwest of the Greek island of Samothraki, 185 miles northeast of Athens. The USGS...

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Challenges encountered in dam removal and underwater valley restoration projects

Built in 1913 to provide the earthquake-devastated San Francisco with fresh water, the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir has given rise to significant political dispute over decades, with environmentalists...

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La Habla earthquake and the role of social media in the information transmission

On Friday, March 28, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake hit the area of LA, 1 mile east of La Habra at a depth of 4.6 miles according to USGS, with more than 100 aftershocks been recorded since. The earthquak...

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Cephalonia earthquakes: EERI and GEER to investigate the seismic activity impact

GEER (Geotechnical Extreme Event Reconnaissance) Association in collaboration with EERI (Earthquake Engineering Research Institute) responded immediately to the continuous earthquake activity taking...

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Do injection wells trigger earthquakes in Texas?

More than 20 earthquakes that occurred last year in the Azle area in Texas, were the reason for the Texas Railroad Commission to hold a public meeting in Azle on January 2 and investigate the con...

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119ft long steel pipe is Bertha’s mystery object

According to the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), crews on January 2 managed to remove enough soil from the cutter head and lower the water pressure, allowing for an inspection o...

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Landslide in Mexico results in coastal highway collapse [video]

Last Saturday a coastal road located about 60miles from the Mexico-United States border connecting the Mexican towns of Ensenada and Tijuana, collapsed after a landslide that was probably triggered by...

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Texas study shows gas injection a probable suspect of creating earthquakes

The goal of the study, published last Monday in the science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was to investigate earthquakes greater than magnitude 3 of the period between 2006...

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