July 10, 2008
ScienceDaily (July 10, 2008) — Using remarkably sensitive new instruments, seismologists have detected minute geological changes that preceded small earthquakes along California’s famed San Andreas Fault by as much as 10 hours. If follow-up tests show that the preseismic signal is pervasive, researchers say the method could form the basis of a robust early warning system for impending quakes.
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July 8, 2008
ScienceDaily (Dec. 28, 2004) — Hundreds of thousands of earthquake fatalities could be averted if building contractors and homeowners were alerted to elementary construction principles, especially in the world’s six deadliest earthquake countries led by Iran, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder seismologist.
July 8, 2008
ScienceDaily (July 7, 2008) — The May 12 earthquake that rocked Sichuan Province in China was the first there in recorded history and unexpected in its magnitude. Now a team of geoscientists is looking at the potential for future earthquakes due to earthquake-induced changes in stress.
July 8, 2008
AREQUIPA, Peru, July 8, 2008 (Reuters) — A magnitude 6.0 earthquake rattled southern Peru early on Tuesday, startling residents in the Andean country’s second-largest city, Arequipa, who ran out of their homes into the streets.
July 8, 2008
PATONG: Tourists in Patong opted to soak up the sun rather than run for their lives during yesterday’s tsunami drill. The exercise, held across the six Andaman provinces, included the sounding of all 79 tsunami warning towers operated by the National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC).
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June 10, 2008
You couldn’t have asked for a nicer morning for a catastrophic tsunami.
Dawn arrived on a pleasant coastal mist at the inn where I was staying in Lincoln City’s inundation zone. That’s what scientists call the low-lying areas that will be wiped out when — not if — a major tsunami strikes the 26 small cities and 12 unincorporated communities that dot Oregon’s 360 miles of coastline.
June 4, 2008
In the wake of one of the worst earthquakes in recent memory, China’s death toll since last month’s earthquake surpassed 68,000 last week.
On the other side of the globe and on a moderately sized college campus, the University’s emergency management program continues to work to raise awareness about earthquake preparation and mitigating risk.
June 2, 2008
They were rather gentle as earthquakes go, but the main shocks from a pair of earthquake clusters just off the central Oregon coast in 2004 could prove more significant than scientists initially realized.
May 27, 2008
The potential for a modest school to survive a powerful earthquake is perhaps nowhere better illustrated than in Balakot, Pakistan, one of hundreds of communities near the border with India shattered by a devastating tectonic jolt on Oct. 8, 2005.
May 22, 2008
Marianne White, Canwest News Service
Published: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
QUEBEC – The coast of British Columbia has long been considered as a high risk zone for earthquakes and underwater landslides that often cause tsunamis. Scientists now say Quebec and the East Coast should also brace for such hazard.
