Australia is a long way from the tectonic plate boundaries where most earthquakes happen – but we can’t escape the forces they create.
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A new ocean is slowly forming from beneath Africa.
Iceland is known as ‘the land of fire and ice’ for a reason.
Iceland’s volcanic activity is generally tame compared with explosive eruptions along the Pacific’s Ring of Fire. This time, it’s shaking up a town.
A supercontinent could raise global temperatures to such a degree that it could wipe out mammals.
The presence of water on the Earth’s surface is the result of a subtle balance between different mechanisms in the atmosphere and below the surface.
A new array of seismometers provides a glimpse of what’s happening deep beneath this geologic fault. New data help explain why the north and south of the region are more seismically active than the middle.
When magma rises towards the surface gas bubbles start to form. Whether or not they can escape as the magma is rising affects how explosive the eruption will be.
It feels as if volcanoes in our region are going off at a high rate right now - but it’s reasonably normal activity for the “Ring of Fire” belt running around the Asia Pacific.
The Nov. 12 earthquake wasn’t centered on any known major faults in the Earth’s crust. In its wake, scientists will collect data to add detail to what they know about seismic activity in the area.
We have better maps of the moon than Earth’s newest continent, Zealandia. That’s about to change as an international expedition probes the vast undersea plateau of continental crust.
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Professor of Geology, West Virginia University
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Senior Curator of Geosciences, Museums Victoria Research Institute; Monash University
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Professor of tectonics and geophysics, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Ph.D. Candidate in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University
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PhD Student in Earth Sciences, University of Oregon
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Géochimiste, chargé de recherche CNRS au Centre de recherches pétrographiques et géochimiques de Nancy, Université de Lorraine
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Senior Research Associate in Meteorology, University of Bristol
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Cosmochimiste, chargée de recherche CNRS au Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG) de Nancy, CNRS, Université de Lorraine
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Associate Professor of Earth Science , University of Southampton
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Professor in Earth & Climate Science, University of Southampton
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Geography, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer in Geosciences, The University of Queensland
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Earthquake Scientist, Monash University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Structural Geology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon