How earthquake safety measures could have saved thousands of lives in Nepal
Earthquake engineers often say earthquakes don't kill people, collapsing buildings do. The tragic loss of life th…
April 2015
New significant threat in Nepal for the next months
Map of landslide and landslide dam hazard potential. Credit: Marin Clark, Nathan Niemi and Sean Gallen The threat…
How cracking explains underwater volcanoes and the Hawaiian bend
The discovery helps explain the spectacular bend in the famous underwater range, the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain,…
Why the Nepalese quake was so destructive
The earthquake, which wreaked havoc in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal on Saturday about noon local time, was the stron…
Why it is so hard to predict where and when earthquakes will strike
Can earthquakes ever be predicted? This question is timely after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Nepal recen…
Alternate theory of inhabitation of North America disproven
Map of Bering Sea. The Bering Strait is a comparatively shallow area between Alaska and Siberia. The most widely…
Bizarre Newly Discovered 'platypus' dinosaur: Vegetarian relative of T. rex
Bizarre: Palaeontologists are referring to Chilesaurus diegosuarezi as a 'platypus' dinosaur because of its bizar…
Did Kathmandu shift? Questions and Answers
The tremor which struck Nepal on Saturday, killing more than 3,500 people, may have caused a land area around the cap…
Possibility of Bringing Mammoths Back
Lyuba, a mummified woolly mammoth calf, at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago An international team of r…
Mongolia fined $100M for expropriating uranium mine
An international arbitration tribunal has ordered Mongolia to fork over $100 million for expropriating the Dornod ura…
Geothermal energy, aluto volcano, and Ethiopia's rift valley
Conceptual model summarizing the evolution of the major structures on Aluto volcano and their controls on surface volcan…
Continental U. S: Map shows content and origins of the geologic basement
This is a map showing basement domains according to generalized original crust types. map showing the many diff…
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