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African Desert Rift Confirmed As New Ocean In The Making Rochester NY (SPX) Nov 04, 2009 
In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled apart, but the claim was controversial. Now, scientists from several countries have confirmed that the volcanic processes at work beneath the Ethiopian rift are nearly identical to those ... read moreColossal quake may hit Sumatra in 30 years: geologist 
Singapore (AFP) Oct 15, 2009A colossal earthquake may hit Indonesia's Sumatra island within 30 years, triggering a tsunami and making last month's deadly temblor look tiny by comparison, a geologist has warned. Kerry Sieh, director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore, said the next big quake would last more than six times as long as the 7.6 magnitude quake which struck western Sumatra on September 30, leveling the ... more
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Killer earthquakes shake scientific thought
Sydney (AFP) Oct 11, 2009A sudden cluster of massive earthquakes which has shaken Asia-Pacific communities and likely left thousands dead has also jolted some scientists, who are starting to question conventional thought. Experts who dismissed notions that far-away quakes could be linked are beginning to think again after huge tremors rocked Samoa and Indonesia on the same day, followed by another major convulsion ... more Indonesia quake zone a disaster waiting to happen: scientists 
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Scientists have warned for years that the Indonesian city of Padang is a disaster waiting to happen because of strain on a nearby fault-line. After this week's quake they say worse is still to come. The city on Sumatra island is located between two lines of high seismic activity - the Great Sumatran fault on the mainland to the east, and the Sumatra trench, also called the Sunda trench, und ... more Asia trembles as 'Ring of Fire' sees new deadly quakes 
Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Asia trembled this week as earthquakes hit in Indonesia and the South Pacific along the "Ring of Fire," a stretch of seismic fury responsible for most of the world's tremors and volcanoes. But experts said that although one earthquake can sometimes can set off another, that was not the case in this week's disasters which struck Indonesia's Sumatra and the once-idyllic Samoan islands. ... more Major quakes can weaken seismic faults far away, scientists say 
Paris (AFP) Sept 30, 2009Huge earthquakes can weaken seismic faults on the other side of the world, scientists in California said on Wednesday. Their study coincided with a major 8.0-magnitude quake in the Pacific, unleashing a tsunami that killed scores of people in the Samoan islands and Tonga. Seismologists led by Taka'aki Taira of the University of California at Berkeley found that the 9.1 monster that struc ... more |
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Massive quake moves New Zealand closer to Australia
Wellington (AFP) July 22, 2009A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake last week has moved the south of New Zealand closer to Australia, scientists said Wednesday. With the countries separated by the 2,250-kilometre-wide (1,400-mile-wide) Tasman Sea, the 30 centimetre (12 inch) closing of the gap in New Zealand's southwest won't make much difference. But earthquake scientist Ken Gledhill of GNS Science said the shift illus ... more What Goes Down, Must Come Up: Earth's Leaky Mantle 
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 05, 2009A new analysis of the processes that constantly stir the Earth's deep mantle is helping to explain how the mantle holds onto a portion of ancient noble gases that were trapped during the Earth's formation. The research, which appears this week in the journal Nature, takes aim at a question that has vexed geoscientists for years: how to reconcile leading theories about the convection of ... more A Hidden Drip, Drip, Drip Beneath Earth's Surface 
Tempe AZ (SPX) May 28, 2009There are very few places in the world where dynamic activity taking place beneath Earth's surface goes undetected. Volcanoes, earthquakes, and even the sudden uplifting or sinking of the ground are all visible results of restlessness far below, but according to research by Arizona State University (ASU) seismologists, dynamic activity deep beneath us isn't always expressed on the surface. ... more Andes Mountains Are Older Than Previously Believed 
Panama, Panama (SPX) May 19, 2009The geologic faults responsible for the rise of the eastern Andes mountains in Colombia became active 25 million years ago-18 million years before the previously accepted start date for the Andes' rise, according to researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, the University of Potsdam in Germany and Ecopetrol in Colombia. "No one had ever dated mountain-building ... more |
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