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Yellowstone's Quiet Power: A Volcano Forcefully Shapes The Land, Even Between Eruptions (March 1, 2007) -- A 17-year University of Utah study of ground movements shows that the power of the huge volcanic hotspot beneath Yellowstone National Park is much greater than previously thought when the giant ... > full story

Scientists Gauge Earthquake Hazards Through Study Of Precariously Balance Rocks (February 28, 2007) -- An exhaustive study by Nevada research team pinpoints several causes and indications of seismic threat in the ... > full story

Bacteria Could Steady Buildings Against Earthquakes (February 26, 2007) -- Soil bacteria could be used to help steady buildings against earthquakes, according to researchers at UC Davis. The microbes can literally convert loose, sandy soil into ... > full story

Engineers Shake Up The World As They Perform A First (February 25, 2007) -- An 8.0 earthquake hit the east side of campus recently, but the only real casualty was a 110-foot bridge. M. Saiid Saiidi, a professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at the ... > full story

A Crystal Ball Of Earthquakes (February 15, 2007) -- When the next big earthquake hits a region like San Francisco, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council grantee Kristy Tiampo wants to ensure that communities will not only be able to ... > full story

Earth Mantle 'Ocean': 3-D Seismic Model Of Vast Water Reservoir Revealed (February 11, 2007) -- A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping -- diminishing -- deep in the Earth's mantle and has revealed the existence of an underground ... > full story

Scientists Use Seismic Waves To Locate Missing Rock Under Tibet (February 9, 2007) -- Geologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have located a huge chunk of Earth's lithosphere that went missing 15 million years ago. By finding the massive block of errant rock ... > full story

New Data Shakes Accepted Models Of Collisions Of Earth's Crust (February 8, 2007) -- New research findings may help refine the accepted models used by earth scientists over the past 30 years to describe the ways in which continents clash to form the Earth's landscape. This work ... > full story

Major Population Centers May Be At Risk From Earthquakes; Building Codes Must Reflect New Seismic Data (February 8, 2007) -- Earthquakes in stable continental regions lack sufficient understanding to prepare local populations for future seismic activity, according to a paper published in the February issue of the Bulletin ... > full story

Researcher To Study Volcanism With Under-ocean Sensors (February 7, 2007) -- Earthquakes and volcanic activity occur when the tectonic plates that make up Earth's surface move apart or converge. While this activity is relatively easy to observe on land, it's more difficult to ... > full story

Folded Sediment Unusual In Sumatran Tsunami Area (February 4, 2007) -- Sediment folding may have added to the exceptionally large tsunami that struck Sumatra on December 26, 2004, according to an international team of ... > full story

Research Reveals Limitations Of Seismic Data For Mapping Rock Units In Young Oceanic Crust (January 31, 2007) -- Researchers report in Nature that an approach used for years to understand the structure of Earth's oceanic crust is flawed and geoscientists will have to reconsider the correspondence between ... > full story

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