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A swarm of 85,000 earthquakes at the Antarctic Orca submarine volcano

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Volcanoes can be found even off the coast of Antarctica. At the deep-sea volcano Orca, which has been inactive for a long time, a...

Signs of past California ‘mega-quakes’ show danger of the big one on San Andreas fault

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As Interstate 10 snakes through the mountains and toward the golf courses, housing tracts and resorts of the Coachella Valley, it crosses the dusty...

2014 Napa earthquake continued to creep

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On August 24, 2014, just south of Napa, California, a fault in the Earth suddenly slipped, violently shifting and splitting huge blocks of solid...

Aftershocks of 1959 earthquake rocked Yellowstone in 2017-18

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On Aug. 17, 1959, back when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, the U.S. had yet to send a human to space and the nation’s...

Earthquake faults are smarter than we usually think

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Northwestern University researchers now have an answer to a vexing age-old question: Why do earthquakes sometimes come in clusters? The research team has developed a...

San Andreas Fault’s creeping section could unleash large earthquakes

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The central section of the San Andreas Fault could host larger quakes than previously realized. The middle section of the San Andreas Fault may have...

Why there is increase in Oklahoma’s earthquakes

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In 2015 alone, residents of Oklahoma felt the earth move beneath them a total of 907 times, as an unprecedented number of magnitude three...
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