earthquakes
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What Is an Earthquake?
Earlier today, a 2.3 magnitude earthquake occurred near Ferntree Gully in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. It got us thinking.
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Archaeologists Find Evidence That a Massive Tsunami Hit Ancient Levantine Coast
When Gilad Shtienberg began digging on an Israeli beach in August 2018, the last thing he expected to find were seashells. Boring some 9.14 m below the sandy surface, Shtienberg, a geomorphologist at the Scripps Centre for Marine Archaeology in California, was excavating a doorknob-shaped cove called the Bay of Dor. Nearly 10,000 years ago,…
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Puerto Rico Struck By 5.9-Magnitude Shock Amid Week Of Devastating Seismic Activity
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Puerto Rico on Saturday morning, one of three powerful shocks to wrack the island recently following weeks of smaller quakes. The shake further exacerbated the devastating effects left from Tuesday’s 6.4 magnitude earthquake, the strongest the area’s felt in nearly a century.
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Undersea Telecommunications Cables That Connect The World Can Also Be Used To Detect Earthquakes
The more tools scientists have at their disposal for detecting and studying earthquakes, the better the chances of survival there are when one threatens a populated area. And it turns out that the thousands of kilometres of undersea telecommunications cables that have been used to connect the world can also serve as a surprisingly effective…