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Studying the snowmelt episodes of a Pyrenean river with a seismometer

Geology Page - November 7, 2019

Marine Denolle (right) and her team, including Jiuxun Yin (left) and Brad Lipovsky, created numerical models to predict an earthquake’s final magnitude 10 to 15 seconds faster than today’s best algorithms. Credit: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

Predicting the strength of earthquakes

$Aerial view of the hydraulic fracturing rig at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site. Credit: Matthew Hampson, Cuadrilla Resources Ltd$

Predicting seismic activity at fracking sites to prevent earthquakes

The output of the proposed methodology, which is a two-part optimization process that refines a common technique used to image salt bodies. The black area represents the salt region. Credit: Mahesh Kalita

Solving the salt problem for seismic imaging

The seismological station Patache is located at an altitude of 830 meters less then two kilometers away from the coast. Credit: C. Sens-Schönfelder, GFZ

Sun, moon and sea as part of a ‘seismic probe’

Geophysicist Questions Stability of Antarctic Ice Sheet 

Geology Page - January 30, 2016

Ionospheric anomalies – distinguishing quakes from storms

Geology Page - January 29, 2016

Separating Earthquakes from Explosions Using Seismic Data

Geology Page - January 24, 2016

New gravity dataset will help unveil the Antarctic continent

Geology Page - January 23, 2016

Geologic formation could hold clues to melting glacier floodwaters

Geology Page - December 24, 2015

Physics of booming and burping sand dunes revealed

Geology Page - October 28, 2015

Seismic Signals Reveal Changes in Water Release from Glaciers

Geology Page - October 17, 2015

Scientists track speed of powerful internal waves

Geology Page - October 13, 2015

New NGA global map advances R&D in geophysics and nonproliferation

Geology Page - September 1, 2015

Satellites peer into rock 50 miles beneath Tibetan Plateau

Geology Page - July 22, 2015

NASA explains why June 30 will get extra second

Geology Page - June 27, 2015

Understanding the softness in Earth’s lithosphere

Geology Page - June 16, 2015

Accelerated warming of continental shelf off northeast coast of U.S.

Geology Page - June 16, 2015

‘Myths’ persist about the increase in human-caused seismic activity

Geology Page - June 10, 2015

Large Quakes May Dampen Themselves

Geology Page - June 3, 2015

New technique harnesses everyday seismic waves to image Earth

Geology Page - May 30, 2015

Lawrence Livermore researchers use seismic signals to track above-ground explosions

Geology Page - May 21, 2015

Rupture along the Himalayan Front

Geology Page - May 1, 2015

New research complicates seismic hazard for British Columbia, Alaska region

Geology Page - April 7, 2015

Seismic study aims to map Earth’s interior in 3-D

Geology Page - March 17, 2015

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