Latest Seismology Stories

ISAT introduces free new construction forum that connects construction professionals worldwide. La Mirada, California (PRWEB) February 14, 2011 International Seismic Application Technology (ISAT), the industry leader in seismic bracing and code compliance for non-structural building utilities, is pleased to announce they are now offering a free online information exchange forum open to construction professionals worldwide to discuss issues related to construction. ISAT's new forum...

Lake status doesn't affect earthquake timing, but a big quake for Los Angeles Basin remains on the tableA chronology of 1,000 years of earthquakes at the southern end of the San Andreas Fault nixes the idea that lake changes in the now-dry region caused past quakes. However, researchers say, the timeline pulled from sediment in three deep trenches confirms that this portion of the fault is long past the expected time for a major temblor that would strongly shake the Los Angeles Basin.The new...

2000 years of Chinese records shows migrating mid-continent earthquakesThis December marks the bicentennial of the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12, which are the biggest earthquakes known to have occurred in the central U.S.Now, based on the earthquake record in China, a University of Missouri researcher says that mid-continent earthquakes tend to move among fault systems, so the next big earthquake in the central U.S. may actually occur someplace else other than along the New Madrid...

SeiSpec launches a web site to help track the development and testing of their recently patented seismic acquisition technology. Important in the production and discovery of oil and gas, the SeiSpec process improves underground imaging through improvement of the signal to noise ratio. Georgetown, TX (PRWEB) February 1, 2011 SeiSpec, LLC., a Texas firm organized to further the development of a new approach to seismic acquisition, has opened a website at http://www.seispec.com. The...

The region of Chile that was rocked by an earthquake last February could be at risk for a larger series of tremors, according to a new study published online by the journal Nature Geoscience on Sunday.The 2010 earthquake, which hit the Maule region of the South American country on February 27, "was not unexpected," according to researchers from Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology. "A clearly identified seismic gap existed in an area where tectonic loading has been...

One year ago, a massive earthquake devastated Haiti. An engineering team from the UA is looking at ways to reduce the carnage inflicted by future earthquakes while the island and its people recover slowly amid disease and mountains of rubble. A team led by University of Arizona earthquake engineer Robert B. Fleischman, associate professor in the UA department of civil engineering and engineering mechanics, traveled to Haiti in 2010 to examine earthquake damage to buildings in...

By Tony Fitzpatrick, Washington University in St. LouisCareful analysis shows seismometer noise includes signals from storms in the South Atlantic and 'footquakes' from soccer matches.If you wander up to a seismograph in a museum, unless you are lucky enough to be there right during an earthquake, all you will see is a small wiggly signal being recorded.What's inside the wiggles is called noise by seismologists, because the signal is always there and originates from the normal activity of the...

A new assessment of global earthquake fatalities over the past three decades indicates that 83 percent of all deaths caused by the collapse of buildings during earthquakes occurred in countries considered to be unusually corrupt.Authored by Professor Nicholas Ambraseys of the Imperial College of London and Professor Roger Bilham of the University Colorado at Boulder, the study also found that in some relatively wealthy countries where knowledge and sound business practices would be expected...

The Moon, Earth's closest neighbor, has long been studied to help us better understand our own planet. Of particular interest is the lunar interior, which could hold clues to its ancient origins. In an attempt to extract information on the very deep interior of the Moon, a team of NASA-led researchers applied new technology to old data. Apollo seismic data was reanalyzed using modern methodologies and detected what many scientists have predicted: the Moon has a core.According to the team's...

New technologies developed by NASA and other agencies are revealing surprising insights into a major earthquake that rocked parts of the American Southwest and Mexico in April, including increased potential for more large earthquakes in Southern California.At the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, scientists from NASA and other agencies presented the latest research on the magnitude 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake, that region's largest in nearly 120 years....