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  • June 2008

    • China Quake Beat the Odds

      LiveScience  |  Jun 30, 08 4:06 PM CDT

      China Quake Beat the Odds

      (Newser) - The earthquake that leveled parts of China’s Sichuan province last month was a geological oddity arising from usually inactive faults, LiveScience reports. The bizarre seismological coincidences behind the quake explain why no one was able to predict the event, which claimed 69,000 lives. More »

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      China  • Tibet  • earthquake  • China earthquake  • Sichuan province  • tectonic plates  • seismology

  • May 2008

    • Big Quakes Beget More Shakes Worldwide

      LiveScience  |  May 27, 08 9:45 AM CDT

      Big Quakes Beget More Shakes Worldwide

      (Newser) - Massive earthquakes like this month's in China's Sichuan province can quite literally make waves on the other side of the Earth, a new seismology study finds. The surface tremors resulting from events like Indonesia's tsunami-triggering quake in 2004 lead to increased seismic activity around the globe—from two to five times the average, LiveScience reports. More »

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      earthquake  • China earthquake  • seismology  • tectonic plates

  • April 2008

    • Scientists Stumped by Oregon Quakes

      Oregonian (Portland)  |  Apr 12, 08 7:33 AM CDT

      Scientists Stumped by Oregon Quakes

      (Newser) - A swarm of more than 600 earthquakes off the Oregon coast has scientists stumped, the Oregonian reports. The activity started around 10 days ago and a research ship has been diverted to the area to look for answers. The earthquakes resemble those that happen before a volcano erupts but there are none in the area, around 150 miles off central Oregon. Three of the earthquakes have been over magnitude 5 on the Richter scale. More »

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      earthquake  • Oregon  • Richter scale  • tectonic plates  • geologist  • underwater

  • January 2008

    • Earth's Mystery Core Plumbed

      Der Spiegel  |  Jan 27, 08 9:32 AM CST

      Earth's Mystery Core Plumbed

      (Newser) - Climate change has sparked heated debate about the Earth’s surface, but a controversial new theory is directing scientists to its core, Der Spiegel reports. To explain why contintental plates drift on the surface of the Earth's molten mantle, Maruyama Shigenori, a leading geophysicist, argues that continents actually have life cycles. Old, cold plates on continental fringes sink to “plate graveyards” deep in the Earth’s mantle, and then rise again, creating volcanoes. More »

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      Japan  • Earth  • geology  • volcanoes  • tectonic plates  • Earth's interior  • molten rock  • continents

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