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We design cities and buildings for earthquakes and floods — we need to do the same for wildfires
As built-up areas encroach on natural ones, we need new strategies for dealing with the impact of wildfires on buildings and ...
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Lighting up earthquakes: How scientists watched ruptures evolve in milliseconds
Scientists have built a lab model that visually tracks how microscopic contact points between fault surfaces evolve during ...
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EV concept cars at CES 2020 - empty promises?
EV concept cars at CES 2020 - empty promises? Several EV concepts made an impression, particularly the Sony Vision-S and the ...
Stanley earthquake swarm brings more than 100 quakes, and it's not over
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Central Mountains had numerous earthquakes occur Friday, all in connection to the ongoing earthquake swarm in the area. Several of Friday’s quakes registered above magnitude 3, ...
Lighting a new way to predict earthquakes: Laboratory model links fault contact area to earthquake occurrences
Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault ...
Why seismic waves spontaneously race inside the Earth
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, shifting tectonic plates—these are all signs that our planet is alive. But what is revealed ...