It has been five years since an earthquake hit the Italian city of L’Aquila leaving 309 people dead. In the aftermath one public official and six earthquake scientists were charged with multiple counts…
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Earthquakes could act as an early warning system for volcanic eruptions, according to new research. Researchers have found…
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit south-central Pakistan on Tuesday this week. Reports of hundreds of casualties highlight the awful scale of the tragedy, made more difficult for rescuers by the remote location…
A little more than 90 years ago, British geologist Herbert Hall Turner noticed some earthquake data that suggested a surprising explanation. The only way to explain it was if the quake had occurred hundreds…
You’ll know by now that six scientists and a government official have been found guilty of manslaughter (as reported yesterday) and sentenced to six years in prison for how they assessed and communicated…
Earthquakes that took place every 25 minutes for a year in an Antarctic ice sheet have enhanced researchers’ understanding…
This week’s 5.3 magnitude earthquake that struck near Moe in Victoria’s brown-coal mining region of the La Trobe Valley brings to mind the 5.6 magnitude quake of 1989 in another coal-mining heartland…
Just before 9pm last night (AEST) a magnitude-5.4 earthquake (initially measured as magnitude-5.3) rocked Victoria. The quake did minimal damage to property and no injuries have been reported, but it reminded…
The last eruption from Yellowstone National Park, over two million years ago, appears to have been two smaller eruptions…
Defects in rocks below the earth’s surface have a substantial effect on the transmission of seismic waves, including those…
The magnitude 9.0 Tōhoku-Oki earthquake of March 11 last year was the largest earthquake in Japan’s modern history. In fact, it was the fourth-largest earthquake anywhere in the world since 1900. The earthquake…
Predicting when and where earthquakes will occur is becoming more feasible, say scientists from Monash University who are…
New research has brought seismologists one step closer to learning how earthquakes come about. Researchers used simple laboratory…
This week, a committee of six scientists (including Dr Enzo Boschi, formerly president of Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) and one government official, whose role was to advise…
With a total lunar eclipse set to occur just before sunrise (AEST) on Thursday, we can expect to see certain views regurgitated about our moon. Our satellite has been the focus of speculation and folklore…
Since the 2004 Sumatra earthquake, there have been several major events, and a large number of magnitude-8 earthquakes – a cluster, it could be said, of large earthquakes. The last time we saw this was…
A prolonged period of hotter-than-average temperatures in the crater lake of New Zealand’s Mt Ruapehu has seen the country’s media questioning whether another eruption is on the cards. Mt Ruapehu (Māori…
Why have so many lives been lost in Japan and New Zealand recently? And why have so many survivors – the so-called “lucky ones” – had their livelihoods and homes destroyed? As a seismologist, I ask myself…
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Professor of Earthquake Science, The University of Melbourne
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Earthquake Scientist, Monash University
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Professor, Head of Geophysics, Director of Warramunga Array, Australian National University
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Reader in Physical Geography and Natural Hazards, Coventry University
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Professor of Geophysics and Department Head, Colorado State University
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Professor in Earth Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of Mineral Physics, University of Cambridge
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Ph.D. Candidate in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University
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Professor, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington