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Earthquakes remain one of the most humbling forces on Earth. They arrive without a warning knock, they don't care about your ...

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Nearly one year after two devastating earthquakes impacted more than eight million people in Nepal, deadly earthquakes have hit both Japan and Ecuador this past week highlighting the need for urgent ...

Preface / by A. Elena Charola and Robert J. Koestler -- 1. Back to back : the earthquake and hurricane of 2011 / G. Wayne Clough -- 2. 2011 seismic activity quakes the Smithsonian : the impact on ...

Earthquakes in the American state of Utah, the Soultz-sous-Forêts region of France or in the Dutch province of Groningen should not be able to occur even if the subsurface has been exploited for ...

Fatma Özdoğan received funding from Mitacs Inc. through the Mitacs Globalink Research Award to support her research visit at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku ...

Global distribution of natural and induced seismicity. Natural earthquakes with moment magnitude higher than 5 are color-coded according to their hypocenter depth (upper right colorbar, U.S.