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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 "inner-inner" core as well. "We found evidence that may indicate a change in the structure of iron, whi...
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 most powerful quake ever recorded — estimated between magnitude 9.4 and 9.6 — South America, an...
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 University of Texas at Austin. The study, which was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: So...