Powerful Earthquake And Aftershocks Kill Thousands And Injure Many More In Western Afghanistan
People gather on the streets in Herat on October 7, 2023. A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit western Afghanistan October 7 morning, the United States Geological Survey said, followed by four large aftershocks with epicentres close to the region’s largest city. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) – via Getty Images ISLAMABAD (AP) — The death […]
Opinion | ‘I Thought I Had Woken Up to an Earthquake’: What We Heard This Week
“The first time I experienced it, I thought I had woken up to an earthquake.” — Nassim Zecavati, MD, of Children’s Hospital of Richmond in Virginia, discussing her personal experience with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. “It’s like giving the full sandwich rather than giving bread, salami, and tomato, and a little mustard and mayo separately. […]
January 2020 Puerto Rico earthquake provides valuable data for ground failure models
Field surveys conducted in the days after the 7 January 2020 Puerto Rico earthquake documented more than 300 landslides and severe liquefaction in southern coastal regions, according to a new study by U.S. Geological Survey and University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez researchers. The ground failure that resulted from the magnitude 6.4 earthquake wasn’t exceptional, especially […]
New type of earthquake discovered
A Canadian-German research team have documented a new type of earthquake in an injection environment in British Columbia, Canada. Unlike conventional earthquakes of the same magnitude, they are slower and last longer. The events are a new type of induced earthquake that have been triggered by hydraulic fracturing, a method used in western Canada for […]