Advancing earthquake science worldwide
20 April 2023–A decade’s worth of research at oil and gas operations in the central and eastern United States has confirmed that fluid injection from hydraulic fracturing and wastewater disposal can induce seismicity. Now, data from hydraulic fracturing wells in eastern Ohio indicate that extraction activities also can influence the … Continue Reading »
19 April 2023–Earthquakes, lava bubbling through the sea floor and fin whale calls are all part of the noisy seismic environment at Axial Seamount, an active submarine volcano located about 480 kilometers west of Oregon’s Cannon Beach. To identify the sources of all these seismic noises, Kaiwen Wang of Lamont-Doherty … Continue Reading »
19 April 2023–On 24 September, about a cup’s worth of the rocky surface of asteroid Bennu will be returned to Earth in a sample return capsule, ending the 12-year mission of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as it lands in the Utah desert. Researchers led by Sandia National Laboratories will be “listening” … Continue Reading »
18 April 2023–Analyzing hydraulic fracturing (HF) wells in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and West Canada, researchers found that the average daily injection rates and the total injected volumes are not a crucial factor in determining whether a stimulation will trigger nearby earthquakes. As Iason Grigoratos of ETH Zürich and colleagues … Continue Reading »
19 April 2023–Researchers have developed a way to quickly detect and assess glacial valley landslides in coastal Alaska, which can in some cases trigger dangerous local tsunamis. The strategy can detect and locate a landslide within a minute of occurring, within a couple of kilometers of its location if recorded … Continue Reading »
18 April 2023–Earthquakes cost the nation an estimated $14.7 billion annually in building damage and associated losses according to a new report released jointly by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Federal Emergency Management Agency at the 2023 Seismological Society of America meeting. The new estimate is twice that of … Continue Reading »