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Earthquakes triggered by landslides

It is widely known that earthquakes can trigger disastrous landslides but, what about the opposite? Can landslides trigger earthquakes? Earthquakes are triggering factors that can activate slope inst...

Earth and Moon struck by asteroid shower 800 million years ago

According to a new study, a vast meteoroid bombardment struck the Earth and the Moon about 800 million years ago. The research was conducted from Japanese scientists in a collaboration between Osaka...

How will rivers respond to environmental alterations

Scientists investigate the response of the rivers across the globe when it comes to the changing environmental conditions. Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the U...

Mega-tsunami generated by an ancient landslide in Mars

According to research from the University of Milan “Bicocca” in Italy, a mega-tsunami was generated by a massive landslide in Mars, billions of years ago. The study, recently published in Planetary...

What controls the height of the world's mountains?

A new study comes to answer an interesting question. What determines the height of the earth's mountains? Mountains are formed as a result of plate tectonics, the theory that describes the movement o...

History of Torque Correlation (Kt) Factor

Gary Seider, Engineering Manager at Hubbell Power Systems, recently posted an interesting story on CHANCE® Foundation Solutions Blog about the origin and development of the Torque Correlation (Kt) Fa...

How much sand do we have left? New transport equations for carbonate deposits

A new study provides insights and suggests new models on carbonate sand deposits movements. The study can shed light on the total amount of sand deposits that are left on earth. Sand is a soil materi...

Quantifying the slip rate of a remote and creeping landslide

A study, recently published in Nature Communications, presents a new technique for quantifying the movement patterns of a remote, creeping landslide. Scientists from the University of California, Ber...

New study on tectonic plates movements reveals potential regions with less seismic activity

A new study sheds light on regions where earthquake activity is less likely to occur. Researchers from Cardiff University in Wales and Tsukuba University in Japan studied a specific tectonic process...

New crustal stress map of North America

A new study presents the first quantitative stress magnitude map that also includes horizontal stress orientations in North America. The findings were recently published in Nature Communications. Th...

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