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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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50th anniversary of the 9.2 magnitude Great Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami

On March 27 1964 a 9.2 magnitude earthquake, the largest ever recorder in the U.S., shook Alaska for about 5minutes, and was followed by a 100ft high tsunami. The earthquake and tsunami combined, caus...

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The 4.4 magnitude earthquake in L.A. causes scientific surprise

After the 5.5 quake in Chino Hills in 2008, another significant event occurred at 4.4 at 6:25am on Monday March 17, in Encino. The USGeological Survey (USGS) reported that the earthquake was&nbsp...

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Can shale fracking be responsible for Ohio's recent seismic activity?

The area of Youngstown, Ohio had never experienced earthquakes, up until 2011 where about 109 minor seismic events were recorded, initiating relative research on behalf of the Geophysical Researc...

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Cephalonia earthquake, preliminary damage observations from Geoengineer.org's geotechnical engineer

One of Geoengineer.org's geotechnical engineers visited the island of Cephalonia,Greece, only two days after the second earthquake event (M=5.8), which caused extended damage mainly in the Lixouri pe...

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Buildings prone to cliff collapse are being demolished in Port Hills, Christchurch

Many rockfalls and landslides were triggered by a severe earthquake in Christchurch in 2011, resulting in many damaged homes. Last Sunday the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) released a...

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New research shows how faults warn us before a big earthquake

A new research published in the Geophysical Research Letters journal last November, provides an insight into how earthquake warning signals are produced by faults. To do so, laboratory exper...

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New study shows 16 earthquakes were triggered by landslide

The landslide at the Bingham Canyon copper mine that occurred last April, near Salt Lake City in Utah, seems to be the largest non-volcanic landslide in North America in modern times, with almost 65 m...

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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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Philippines landslides induced by earthquake

Landslides, sinkholes, floods, liquefaction and earthquake deformation were some of the disastrous results of the M 7.1 earthquake that struck the island of Bohol on 15 October 2013. According to t...

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