Recent research by scientists focused on geologic features and activity in the Himalayas and Pacific Northwest that could mean those areas are primed for major earthquakes.
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama praised the potential of the country's tremendous supply of natural gas buried in shale. But the "Halliburton exclusion" passed by Congress says gas companies don't have to disclose the chemicals used in fracturing fluids. That was a real mistake because it makes the public needlessly paranoid, says a geophysicist.
"We have to make earthquake forecasting as routine as weather forecasting," Stanford geophysicist Greg Beroza says.
(University of California - Riverside) Geophysicists at the University of California, Riverside, have received a $4.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of earthquake fault systems.
James Dieterich is the principal investigator of a five-year, $4.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of earthquake fault systems.
(University of California - Riverside) Geophysicists at the University of California, Riverside, have received a $4.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of earthquake fault systems.
(University of California - Riverside) Geophysicists at the University of California, Riverside, have received a $4.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of earthquake fault systems.
Prospecting — the search for valuable reserves such as gold, diamond and natural gas — isn’t just a matter of luck. It’s about knowing where to look.
(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) Combining a number of surveying techniques for the first time, Prof. Lev Eppelbaum and Dr. Youri Katz of Tel Aviv University say their integrated surveying techniques can be applied to any region in the world to more accurately identify riches beneath the earth's surface -- before expensive drilling and mining are necessary.
Combining a number of surveying techniques for the first time, experts say their integrated surveying techniques can be applied to any region in the world to more accurately identify riches beneath the earth's surface -- before expensive drilling and mining are necessary.
