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Newswise: Poor infrastructure in Turkey, Syria partially to blame for the high number of earthquake casualties, says expert
Released: 20-Feb-2023 12:05 PM EST
Poor infrastructure in Turkey, Syria partially to blame for the high number of earthquake casualties, says expert
Virginia Tech

The earthquakes in Turkey and Syria killed over 45,000 people and decimated large areas. The shockingly high number of fatalities raises the question of whether infrastructure issues are to blame. Roberto Leon, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, said there are several reasons for the large number of collapses, leading to mass casualties: Poor enforcement of existing codes (modern codes instituted after the 1999 Izmit earthquake) Grandfathering of older, deficient structures and not requiring their retrofit (structures built before 1999) Poor construction practices (i.

Newswise: Earthquake scientists have a new tool in the race to find the next big one
Released: 17-Feb-2023 1:45 PM EST
Earthquake scientists have a new tool in the race to find the next big one
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)

An everyday quirk of physics could be an important missing piece in scientists' efforts to predict the world’s most powerful earthquakes.

Newswise: Slow motion: Scientists investigate tectonic plate boundary earthquake behavior
Released: 16-Feb-2023 5:50 PM EST
Slow motion: Scientists investigate tectonic plate boundary earthquake behavior
Utah State University

Renaissance polymath Leonard da Vinci demonstrated frictional forces slow down the motion of surfaces in contact. Friction, he determined, is proportional to normal force. When two objects are pressed together twice as hard, friction doubles.

Newswise: Rutgers Engineering Expert Explains How Earthquake-Resistant Construction Can Curb Catastrophe 
Released: 13-Feb-2023 9:40 AM EST
Rutgers Engineering Expert Explains How Earthquake-Resistant Construction Can Curb Catastrophe 
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck south central Turkey near the Turkey/Syria border on February 6. Within 11 minutes, a magnitude 6.7 aftershock convulsed a region 60 miles north. So far, more than 35,000 people have died, surpassing Japan’s Fukushima earthquake disaster in March 2011. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said an earthquake of this magnitude is rare anywhere in the world Husam Najm, a professor of civil and environmental engineering in the Rutgers School of Engineering who specializes in the study of various advanced concrete materials and the design of novel forms of concrete bridges, discusses the unfolding tragedy, its causes and efforts to design earthquake-resistant structures to stave off such catastrophic losses in the future.

Newswise: Understanding Japan’s earthquakes: New insight into the relationship between slow slip events and the build-up and release of tectonic strain
Released: 10-Feb-2023 5:35 PM EST
Understanding Japan’s earthquakes: New insight into the relationship between slow slip events and the build-up and release of tectonic strain
Kobe University

The Japanese archipelago is actively undergoing seismic shifts due to interactions between the oceanic plate and the continental plate.

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Released: 8-Feb-2023 10:30 AM EST
The Most Advanced Bay Area Earthquake Simulations Will be Publicly Available
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Modeling the effects of earthquakes on homes, businesses, and infrastructure is about to get a lot easier, thanks to advanced simulations performed on the world's fastest supercomputers.

Released: 7-Feb-2023 10:30 AM EST
Devastating earthquake evokes memories of ’99 tragedy in Turkey
University of Miami

University of Miami College of Engineering faculty members Nurcin Celik and Derin Ural lived through the 1999 temblor that struck near the Turkish city of Izmit. They stand ready to offer their expertise in the aftermath of Monday’s disaster.

   
Newswise: Earthquake Expert from Turkey on Devastation in Turkey and Syria
Released: 7-Feb-2023 9:00 AM EST
Earthquake Expert from Turkey on Devastation in Turkey and Syria
California State University, Fullerton

Sinan Akçiz, assistant professor of geological sciences at Cal State Fullerton, turned his Introduction to Geology class on Monday into a real-life lesson about earthquakes and the devastation taking place in his native country, Turkey.

   
Released: 26-Jan-2023 2:40 PM EST
Risk Communication Expert Examines Earthquake Post-Alert Messaging Following False Alarm
University at Albany, State University of New York

The false alert, the first of its kind in the United States, offered a unique opportunity to learn more about the importance of early warning earthquake and post-alert messaging.

   
Released: 18-Jan-2023 5:45 PM EST
Researchers uncover secrets on how Alaska’s Denali Fault formed
Brown University

When the rigid plates that make up the Earth’s lithosphere brush against one another, they often form visible boundaries, known as faults, on the planet’s surface. Strike-slip faults, such as the San Andreas Fault in California or the Denali Fault in Alaska, are among the most well-known and capable of seriously powerful seismic activity.

Newswise: Eavesdropping on the Earth itself
Released: 12-Jan-2023 2:35 PM EST
Eavesdropping on the Earth itself
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

The more-than 1.2 million km of fibre-optic cables that criss-cross the planet carry the world’s phone calls, internet signals and data.

Newswise: Surf, Sand and Seaweed: The latest breakthroughs in Marine Science
Released: 4-Jan-2023 1:40 PM EST
Surf, Sand and Seaweed: The latest breakthroughs in Marine Science
Newswise

Here are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Marine Science channel on Newswise, a free source for media.

Released: 19-Dec-2022 3:05 PM EST
Study shows how machine learning could predict rare disastrous events, like earthquakes or pandemics
Brown University

When it comes to predicting disasters brought on by extreme events (think earthquakes, pandemics or “rogue waves” that could destroy coastal structures), computational modeling faces an almost insurmountable challenge: Statistically speaking, these events are so rare that there’s just not enough data on them to use predictive models to accurately forecast when they’ll happen next.

Newswise: UTEP to Lead New Earthquake Center with Support from National Science Foundation
Released: 19-Dec-2022 12:50 PM EST
UTEP to Lead New Earthquake Center with Support from National Science Foundation
University of Texas at El Paso

A $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will spur The University of Texas at El Paso’s efforts to help underserved communities across the nation become more resilient to earthquakes.

Released: 30-Nov-2022 4:35 PM EST
Landslide risk remains long after an earthquake
Newcastle University

Satellite observations have revealed that weak seismic ground shaking can trigger powerful landslide acceleration – even several years after a significant earthquake.

Released: 30-Nov-2022 11:50 AM EST
Earthquake lab experiments produce aftershock-like behavior
Cornell University

Earthquakes are notoriously hard to predict, and so too are the usually less-severe aftershocks that often follow a major seismic event.

Newswise: Caltech Hall is getting stiffer, according to decades of data
Released: 11-Nov-2022 11:05 AM EST
Caltech Hall is getting stiffer, according to decades of data
Seismological Society of America (SSA)

Caltech Hall, a 55-year-old nine-story reinforced concrete building on the Caltech campus, has been getting structurally stiffer over the past 20 years, according to a new report published in The Seismic Record.

Released: 21-Oct-2022 9:00 AM EDT
Double trouble when 2 disasters strike electrical transmission infrastructure
Ohio State University

One natural disaster can knock out electric service to millions. A new study suggests that back-to-back disasters could cause catastrophic damage, but the research also identifies new ways to monitor and maintain power grids.

Released: 13-Oct-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Seismic sensing reveals flood damage potential
University of Göttingen

Rapidly evolving floods are a major and growing hazard worldwide. Currently, their onset and evolution is hard to identify using existing systems.

Newswise: AI predicts physics of future fault-slip in laboratory earthquakes
Released: 10-Oct-2022 11:25 AM EDT
AI predicts physics of future fault-slip in laboratory earthquakes
Los Alamos National Laboratory

An artificial-intelligence approach borrowed from natural-language processing — much like language translation and autofill for text on your smart phone — can predict future fault friction and the next failure time with high resolution in laboratory earthquakes,. The technique, applying AI to the fault’s acoustic signals, advances previous work and goes beyond by predicting aspects of the future state of the fault’s physical system.

Newswise: Impact that killed the dinosaurs triggered “mega-earthquake” that lasted weeks to months
Released: 6-Oct-2022 3:50 PM EDT
Impact that killed the dinosaurs triggered “mega-earthquake” that lasted weeks to months
Geological Society of America (GSA)

66 million years ago, a 10-kilometer asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of the dinosaurs. New evidence suggests that the Chicxulub impact also triggered an earthquake so massive that it shook the planet for weeks to months after the collision.

Released: 27-Sep-2022 4:05 PM EDT
Edge waves, continental shelf fueled the 2021 Acapulco Bay tsunami
Seismological Society of America (SSA)

Trapped inside the shoreline of a bay, the resonant interactions of a tsunami with regular waves can prolong the tsunami disturbance.

Newswise: Deepest Scientific Ocean Drilling Sheds Light on Japan’s Next Great Earthquake
Released: 23-Sep-2022 12:30 PM EDT
Deepest Scientific Ocean Drilling Sheds Light on Japan’s Next Great Earthquake
University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences

Scientists who drilled deeper into an undersea earthquake fault than ever before have found that the tectonic stress in Japan’s Nankai subduction zone is less than expected, according to a study from researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.

Released: 19-Sep-2022 4:05 PM EDT
FSU geologist available to discuss earthquake that hit Mexico’s Pacific coast
Florida State University

By: Kathleen Haughney | Published: September 19, 2022 | 4:01 pm | SHARE: Mexico is dealing with the fallout of a powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake that occurred near the Pacific coast on the anniversary of two previous tremors. Earthquakes occurred on Sept. 19 in both 1985 and 2017 in Mexico, killing thousands of people.Florida State University Professor of Geology James Tull is available to speak with reporters about the effects of the earthquake and the geology behind this catastrophic event.

Newswise: Cracking the Secrets to Earthquake Safety, One Shake Simulation at a Time
Released: 15-Sep-2022 4:00 PM EDT
Cracking the Secrets to Earthquake Safety, One Shake Simulation at a Time
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A new experimental facility that replicates realistic earthquakes in the laboratory, paired with the world’s fastest supercomputers, will help scientists and engineers build and retrofit shake-resilient buildings and infrastructure across the U.S.

Released: 26-Aug-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Hidden microearthquakes illuminate large earthquake-hosting faults in Oklahoma and Kansas
Seismological Society of America (SSA)

Using machine learning to sift through a decade’s worth of seismic data, researchers have identified hundreds of thousands of microearthquakes along some previously unknown fault structures in Oklahoma and Kansas.

Newswise: New UW Photonic Sensing Facility will use fiber-optic cables for seismic sensing, glaciology and more
Released: 23-Aug-2022 6:05 PM EDT
New UW Photonic Sensing Facility will use fiber-optic cables for seismic sensing, glaciology and more
University of Washington

A new research center is exploring the use of fiber-optic sensing for seismology, glaciology, and even urban monitoring. Funded in part with a $473,000 grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, the new UW Photonic Sensing Facility will use photons traveling through a fiber-optic cable to detect ground motions as small as 1 nanometer.

Released: 19-Aug-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Wave created by Tonga volcano eruption reached 90 meters - nine times taller than 2011 Japan tsunami
University of Bath

The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in January created an initial wave 90 metres high – almost the height of the Statue of Liberty (93m)

Newswise: Geological Carbon Sequestration in Mantle Rocks Prevents Large Earthquakes in Parts of the San Andreas Fault
Released: 17-Aug-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Geological Carbon Sequestration in Mantle Rocks Prevents Large Earthquakes in Parts of the San Andreas Fault
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Now, researchers say ubiquitous evidence for ongoing geological carbon sequestration in mantle rocks in the creeping sections of the SAF is one underlying cause of aseismic creep along a roughly 150 kilometer-long SAF segment between San Juan Bautista and Parkfield, California, and along several other fault segments.

Released: 2-Aug-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Wildfires are intensifying around the world. Here are the latest headlines in wildfires research for media
Newswise

California’s McKinney Fire grew to become the state’s largest fire so far this year. The risk of wildfire is rising globally due to climate change. Below are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Wildfires channel on Newswise.

       
Newswise: Earthquake seismologist launches international study of oceanic plate
Released: 11-Jul-2022 4:05 PM EDT
Earthquake seismologist launches international study of oceanic plate
Northern Arizona University

Find out how an NAU team, led by professor Jim Gaherty, will conduct a seismological study of the Cocos tectonic plate deep beneath the Pacific Ocean.

Newswise: KyotoU PEGS away at catching quakes at light speed
Released: 21-Jun-2022 8:15 AM EDT
KyotoU PEGS away at catching quakes at light speed
Kyoto University

A novel AI-based approach to detect earthquakes early uses prompt elasto-gravity signals, or PEGS, gravitational changes generated by large-mass motion in megaquakes. PEGS carry information about an ongoing earthquake at the speed of light, arriving much faster than even the fastest seismic waves.

Newswise:Video Embedded updating-our-understanding-of-earth-s-architecture
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Released: 8-Jun-2022 1:05 AM EDT
Updating Our Understanding of Earth’s Architecture
University of Adelaide

New models that show how the continents were assembled are providing fresh insights into the history of the Earth and will help provide a better understanding of natural hazards like earthquakes and volcanoes.

Newswise: The History of Lake Cahuilla Before the Salton Sea
Released: 31-May-2022 5:05 PM EDT
The History of Lake Cahuilla Before the Salton Sea
San Diego State University

Today, the Salton Sea is an eerie place. Its mirror-like surface belies the toxic stew within. Fish skeletons line its shores and the ruins of a once thriving vacation playground is a reminder of better days.

Released: 26-May-2022 1:55 PM EDT
Tsunami Threats Underestimated in Current Models, New Research Shows
University of Southern California (USC)

The 2004 Sumatra earthquake generated one of the most destructive tsunamis ever recorded, with 100-foot waves that killed nearly 230,000 and resulted in an estimated $10 billion in damage.



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