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Africa is Splitting in Two, Creating Dozens of Volcanoes
The process of rifting in Africa means that the continent is slowly breaking apart and with that comes lots of volcanoes, some with the potential for massive explosive eruptions.
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Want Unlimited Clean Energy? Just Drill the World's Hottest Well
An engineering team bored 2 miles into hot rock without causing major earthquakes—a good sign for harnessing the Earth's heat as a power source.
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The Army Bombed a Hawaiian Lava Flow. It Didn’t Work.
It could be tried again if the city of Hilo comes under threat, although many object to such airstrikes.
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Billions of people are under coronavirus lockdowns – and now the upper crust of the Earth is shaking less
About four billion people — roughly half the world's population — have reportedly been told to isolate themselves in their homes to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. And the major decrease in the hum of normal human activity has led to a surprising shift in Earth's vibrations.
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Scientists discover a surprise rumbling beneath a sacred Hawaiian volcano
New research shows that every 7 to 12 minutes, a small, and safe, earthquake occurs beneath the Mauna Kea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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Seismic waves reveal giant structures deep beneath Earth’s surface
Seismic waves travelling through Earth have revealed a giant structure between Earth's molten core and solid mantle under the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific
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Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network
Google leverages the massive scale of Android to do phone-based earthquake tracking.
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El Salvador to use energy from volcanoes for bitcoin mining
Hours after becoming the first nation to authorise bitcoin as a legal tender, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele instructed a state-owned geothermal electric company to plan to use geothermal energy from the country’s volcanoes for mining for the cryptocurrency.
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Earth's interior is swallowing up more carbon than thought
Scientists from Cambridge University and NTU Singapore have found that slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates drag more carbon into Earth's interior than previously thought. They found that the carbon drawn into Earth's interior at subduction zones—where tectonic plates collide and dive into Earth's interior—tends to stay locked away at depth, rather than resurfacing in the form of volcanic emissions.
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How Google Alerted Californians to an Earthquake Before It Hit
People with Android phones got a notification that a trembler was about to rock Silicon Valley. WIRED looks at the tech behind that feat.
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