News About Tectonic Forces 19-NOV-09 en-us Havana (AFP) Nov 17, 2009 - China has donated 700,000 dollars to upgrade Cuba's earthquake detection system, state news agency AIN said Tuesday.]]> Taipei (AFP) Nov 15, 2009 - Taiwan plans to build its first undersea seismic station, designed to improve the island's early warning system and save valuable seconds when earthquakes strike, officials said Sunday.]]> Miama FL (SPX) Nov 10, 2009 - With an average of four mini-earthquakes per day, Southern California's San Jacinto fault constantly adjusts to make it a less likely candidate for a major earthquake than its quiet neighbor to the east, the Southern San Andreas fault, according to an article in the journal Nature Geoscience.]]> 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.]]> Singapore (AFP) Oct 15, 2009 - A 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.]]> Sydney (AFP) Oct 11, 2009 - A 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.]]> Jakarta (AFP) Oct 1, 2009 - Scientists 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.]]> Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 1, 2009 - Asia 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.]]> Paris (AFP) Sept 30, 2009 - Huge earthquakes can weaken seismic faults on the other side of the world, scientists in California said on Wednesday.]]> Washington DC (SPX) Aug 21, 2009 - New research about what triggers earthquakes, authored by Michael Strasser of Bremen University, Germany, with colleagues from the USA, Japan, China, France, and Germany, will appear in the Aug. 16 2009 issue of Nature Geoscience (online version).]]>