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Mexico struck by earthquake of magnitude 8.0, tsunami possible: USGS
An earthquake of 8.0 preliminary magnitude struck off Mexico's coast late Thursday local time, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
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'Strongest in 100yrs': Mexico quake death toll rises to 32 as state of emergency declared
The death toll from an 8.2-magnitude earthquake that hit Mexico has reached at least 32, according to tallies from local authorities.
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Strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake hits Mexico City
A powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake has hit Mexico City, a Mexican monitoring body has said, and there are reports from witnesses of buildings shaking. It wasn't immediately clear if the trembler, which was centred in the southern state of Oaxaca, had caused any damages or injury. "I was frightened because I thought, not again!" Alejandra Castellanos, who was on the second floor in a central neighbourhood of the city, told the Associated Press. Ms Castellanos ran down the stairs and to the street with her husband as soon as she felt hte earthquake.
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How California is preparing for the next big earthquake
The scene is terrifying -- entire sections of a Mexico City office building fall away and crash to the ground. The screams of people reacting are almost worse. That moment, captured on cellphone video, shows just one of a number of buildings, from apartments to schools to governmental offices, that collapsed during the 7.1 magnitude quake that hit Mexico on September 19.
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Nearly 100 Volcanoes Discovered Under Antarctic Ice Sheet
Nearly 100 previously unknown volcanoes, some of which are more than 12,000 feet tall, have been discovered hidden more than a mile beneath the extensive ice sheets of western Antarctica, according to researchers from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Geosciences.
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New California bridge gets sensors to gather earthquake data
A replacement bridge under construction at the second-busiest port in the U.S. isn't just a crucial route for cargo trucks and Southern California commuters — it's a concrete-and-steel science experiment for engineers and seismologists.
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Here’s who to thank that we all survived the quake on Friday
Years of debate followed the 1964 Good Friday earthquake. This time, we reaped the benefit.
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Artificial intelligence helps predict volcanic eruptions
Satellites are providing torrents of data about the world’s active volcanoes, but researchers have struggled to turn them into a global prediction of volcanic risks. That may soon change with newly developed algorithms that can automatically tease from that data signals of volcanic risk, raising the prospect that within a couple years scientists could develop a global volcano warning system.
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Devastating quakes are priming the Himalaya for a mega-disaster
Moderate earthquakes aren’t releasing enough stress along the region’s faults. They’re actually making it worse.
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An earthquake lasted 50 days, but no one felt it. Here's why.
“You could call them phantom quakes,” one geologist says of the tectonic phenomena known as slow slip events.
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Rugged 'mountains' taller than Everest lurk deep inside Earth
Revealed by powerful earthquakes, the subterranean structures offer exciting new clues to why our planet is a chemical oddball.
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South Korea accepts geothermal plant probably caused destructive quake
The nation’s energy ministry expressed ‘deep regret’, and said it would dismantle the experimental plant.
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Geologists Discover Largest Underwater Volcano, Explain Weird Hum Heard Around the World
A strange seismic event off the coast of Africa has led scientists to a mighty finding: the discovery of the largest underwater volcanic eruption ever recorded. The eruption also may explain a weird seismic event recorded in November 2018 just off the island of Mayotte, located between Madagascar and Mozambique in the Indian Ocean. Researchers described that event as a seismic hum that circled the world, but no one could figure out what sparked it.
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LA’s earthquake warning system worked — just not how people expected
No news was still unsettling for some residents.
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Scientists built a 'quake room' to test marsquakes on Earth
Researchers compared quakes from Earth, the moon and Mars inside a "quake room."
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Hiroshima’s sands contain atomic bomb glass
Up 2.5% of the sand on beaches near Hiroshima may in fact be fallout debris from the World War II atomic bomb that devastated the Japanese city. US researchers have made a detailed study of numerous small glassy spheres found in nearby coastal areas and concluded that there can be only one possible explanation for their origin.
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Strange life-forms found deep in a mine point to vast 'underground Galapagos'
The rock-eating, sulfur-breathing microbes have scientists wondering what other strange creatures dwell deep below Earth's surface.
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Powerful storms may be causing offshore ‘stormquakes’
A perfect-storm mixture of hurricane, ocean and seafloor topography can create distinct seismic signals called “stormquakes.”
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Earth's rocks can absorb a shocking amount of carbon: here’s how
The depths of the planet offer a rock-hard potential solution to climate change.
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Fracking may indeed be causing earthquakes in Texas, according to UT study
Since Texas earthquake rates first picked up in 2008, academic scientists, regulators and oil and gas companies have publicly agreed on one thing
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