Researchers convert seismic data into sounds and animations, providing scientists with a new way to view what happens to Earth during earthquakes.
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Earthquakes Could Funnel Radio Waves to Dark Zones in Mountains
By being coupled with a layer of mobile electrical charges on the Earth's surface, radio waves could travel over the ground to areas that would normally be unreachable, like behind a mountain.
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Tremors Reveal the Structure of Deep Glacial Shafts
Seismic waves produced by free-falling meltwater could improve understanding of glacial drainage processes.
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Mapping the Movement of Energy Under Japan
New research on the energy waves caused by earthquakes provides the most detailed map to date of the subduction zone beneath Japan.
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Revising the Displacement History of New Zealand's Alpine Fault
A reinterpretation of structural and paleomagnetic data suggests that New Zealand's Alpine Fault accommodates a far greater percentage of geologically recent plate motion than previously thought.
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Understanding Slow Slip and Tremor on Plate Boundaries
Chapman Conference on Slow Slip Phenomena; Ixtapa, Mexico, 21–25 February 2016
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Flash Heating May Lubricate Rubbing Rock Faces in Earthquakes
A new laboratory study examines the small-scale physics at play as two pieces of granite are smashed together in a scaled-down version of a real earthquake.
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Planning for a Subduction Zone Observatory
An international, interdisciplinary effort to study and observe earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunamis, and continent building at subduction zones could advance science and protect communities.
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Investigations of Shallow Slow Slip Offshore of New Zealand
Recent and upcoming studies of the Hikurangi margin east of New Zealand shed light on previously undetectable tectonic movements.
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Are Earthquakes Predictable?
Researchers have been searching for precursory warning signals for decades with little success.