Greg Hirth News Today

Researchers are adding a new wrinkle to a long-held belief about what causes earthquakes in the first place.

With their election to the prestigious honor society, Francis J. Doyle III, Prudence Carter and Greg Hirth join the nation’s leading scholars in science, public affairs, business, arts and the humanities.

University Park PA (SPX) Feb 12, 2024 - Rocks once buried deep in ancient subduction zones - where tectonic plates collide - could help scientists make better predictions of how these zones behave during the years between major earthquake

<p>Rocks once buried deep in ancient subduction zones — where tectonic plates collide — could help scientists make better predictions of how these zones behave during the years between major earthquakes, according to a research team from Penn State and Brown University.</p>

ORONO -- Creating new, more accurate methods for quantifying the stress and flow rate experienced by deforming rocks at the boundaries of moving tectonic

Eight of us stare into a thicket at the far end of the fields at the Peterson Farm. We strain to spot the movement of branches in the bright sunlight

With last month’s rare bird sensation, the Vermilion Flycatcher, getting smaller in the rear-view mirror, it seemed like maybe we’d get a break from weird, lost flycatchers around here.