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A nuclear power plant, built in partnership with two of the world’s most notorious egoists with funding from questionable sources, using technology developed in tandem with the Chinese, and sited on one of the most active seismic systems on the planet. What could possibly go wrong?   A nuclear plant in a volcano zone? What could possibly…

On May 30, a magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck northeast of Anchorage, Alaska, on a subducting microplate.

The Blue Marble image of Earth captured by the Apollo 17 mission (Credit: NASA/Apollo 17 crew/Public Domain/commons.wikimedia.org) Geologists have long maintained that our Earth comprises four layers — the crust, the mantle, the outer core, and, the deepest layer, the inner core. However, a team of scientists led by Jo Stephenson, a doctoral student in seismology at Australian National University in Canberra, now asserts that our planet may be harboring a mysterious, fifth layer — an "in...

Megamodels: Chile’s insurance sector sharpens up Posted on       A photo taken of a destroyed factory near Corral, Chile, after a tsunami resulting from the Valdivia earthquake in 1960. Credit: Buonasera, Wikipedia Commons   In 1960, Chile experienced an earthquake that shook the region for nearly ten minutes. The Valdivia earthquake, as it was eventually named, triggered a tsunami with waves more than 38 feet (12 meters) tall that devastated parts of the Chilean coast. As host to the...

3.3 magnitude earthquake hits Texas town Chloe Alexander A 3.3 magnitude earthquake hit a Texas town in Gonzalez County early Saturday morning. The earthquake hit about 12:49 a.m. in Smiley, Texas, which is about a three-hour drive from Houston. No injuries nor damage have been reported.  Texas is no stranger to earthquakes. West Texas saw a dramatic increase in earthquakes, jumping from 19 in 2009 to 1,600 in 2017 alone, according to a study published in 2019 by the Universi...

New Zealand sees exotic earthquake sequence Posted on   Shinji Toda, Ph.D., IRIDeS, Tohoku University   Citation: Gonzalez-Huizar, H., Toda, S., 2021, New Zealand sees exotic earthquake sequence, Temblor, http://doi.org/10.32858/temblor.160   On March 4, 2021, a series of three large earthquakes struck within six hours of one another in the South Pacific. The earthquakes struck along 560 miles (900 kilometers) of the Kermadec trench, where the Pacific and Australian tectonic plates conve...

Surprise! Earth Has a Secret Hidden Layer Jennifer Leman A new study provides the best evidence yet for a hidden layer deep within Earth’s solid inner core. Earth’s inner core, made of solid iron and nickel, is roughly two-thirds the size of the moon. The researchers used machine learning to pinpoint the most accurate model of the strange physical processes that shape our planets inner core. Earth’s core is a strange, strange place. For decades, scientists have suspecte...

TUMEGGY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYGetty Images A new study provides the best evidence yet for a hidden layer deep within Earth’s solid inner core. Earth’s inner core, made of solid iron and nickel, is roughly two-thirds the size of the moon. The researchers used machine learning to pinpoint the most accurate model of the strange physical processes that shape our planets inner core. Earth’s core is a strange, strange place. For decades, scientists have suspected that, like Matryoshka stack...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like pages of a book, is Earths history. Our history.

Introduction The Valdivia Earthquake formed one of the most deadly earthquakes that have been ever witnessed on the planet. It is also known as the Great Chilean earthquake. It possessed a magnitude of about 9.4-9.6 according to records from studies. Important dates of the earthquake This earthquake disaster occurred in the year 1960 on 22 nd May. The disaster was experienced in the afternoon on that mentioned day and lasted for approximately ten minutes. Geographical location of the earthquake...