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An artificial intelligence (AI) model has revealed never-before-seen geological structures at Italy’s Campi Flegrei volcano, including a clear “ring fault” that could unleash magnitude 5 earthquakes. So far in 2025, Campi Flegrei has produced five earthquakes above magnitude 4, and the volcano has been showing signs of unrest since 2005. But most of the earthquakes triggered in the region are …

“They Are Coming” – Scientists Warn That Destructive “Supershear” Earthquakes Could Devastate California  SciTechDaily Source link

California may be at high risk of ‘supershear’ earthquakes. Scientists fear we’re not ready  San Francisco Chronicle Source link

When the Mendocino earthquake ruptured off the California coast in 2024, it shook houses off their foundations, sent a 3-inch tsunami racing toward shore and touched off a fascinating science experiment — in the server room of a local police station, of all places. More than two years before the quake, scientists installed a device called a “distributed acoustic sensing …

Calif. could detect massive earthquakes with internet cables. Here’s how.  SFGATE Fiber Optic Cables Could Revolutionize Earthquake Detection and Monitoring  KQED The self-taught seismologist: Monitoring earthquakes from optic fibers with AI  EurekAlert! Source link

Earthquakes can be deadly and disastrous. But what we feel may constitute a tiny sliver of an earthquake’s destructive energy, according to a new experiment. In a recent AGU Advances paper, researchers describe how they created “lab quakes,” or miniature versions of natural earthquakes created in a controlled laboratory. Doing so allowed the team to derive a complete energy budget …

You may already feel as if there’s not enough time in the day.  But it’s not just your imagination – the days have been getting shorter.  According to scientists, July 9, July 22 and August 5 this year were between 1.3 and 1.51 milliseconds shorter than the standard 24-hour day.  Although the exact reason is still a mystery, there could be …

On Wednesday, one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded hit a sparsely populated region in far-east Russia. It triggered a tsunami that started crossing the ocean at hundreds of miles an hour. What followed was a race against time: early-warning systems went into alert mode as waves fanned out towards the coastlines of Japan, Hawaii and the US west …

Why one of the world’s biggest earthquakes wasn’t followed by a monster tsunami  The Washington Post Huge quake in Russia triggers tsunami warnings around Pacific  Reuters The Hawaii tsunami response is a warning about science funding  MSNBC News Visualizing the Russia earthquake and tsunami in maps and charts  CNN Cruise Ships Sailed to Safety Amid Tsunami Warnings, Leaving Some Passengers Behind  The New York Times …

SAN FRANCISCO — It was one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, a magnitude 8.8 monster off the eastern coast of Russia. Despite its remote location, the size of the quake immediately brought potential danger of tsunami to a significant swath of the globe, including Japan, Canada and the United States. Tsunami alerts quickly went out, covering millions of people, including the …