How little-known fault lines could trigger the next earthquake in US
The 'wannabe faults' are found branching off of major fault lines like the San Andreas ... In the US, the 2002 magnitude 7.9 ...
来自MSN21 天
Largest earthquake in 35 years hits Southwest Alaska
According to the Alaska Earthquake Center, this earthquake was a right lateral strike-slip earthquake on the Iditarod-Nixon Fork fault line. The center said the last rupture on this fault line was ...
PBS6 年
Construction Techniques and Protecting the Pipeline from Earthquake
The Alaska engineers may not have expected that their design would get the ultimate test. But on November 3, 2002, a 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook the Denali Fault ... right in line with what ...
Yahoo1 个月
4.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Alaska
A 4.1 magnitude earthquake struck Alaska on Thursday. 30 people felt it. A 4.1 magnitude earthquake struck Alaska on Thursday afternoon. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported the ...
Nature1 个月
Do faults shimmy before they shake?
Not only do plate boundary faults generate earthquakes ... the subduction fault in Japan (S. Miyazaki, Earthquake Research Institute, Japan) and Alaska (D. Christensen, Univ.
Alaska Dispatch News12 天
Alaska Volcano Observatory monitoring increased activity at Mount Spurr west of Anchorage
Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected beneath Mount Spurr in the past week, increasing the odds of an eruption.