Earth sciences Blog EGU 2018: how to distinguish football celebrations from dancing Seismometer could provide information about building vibrations and traffic Read article: EGU 2018: how to distinguish football celebrations from dancing
Earth sciences Research update Simulations reveal how intermittent turbulence affects ocean flow Research could boost our understanding of the energy budget of the oceans Read article: Simulations reveal how intermittent turbulence affects ocean flow
Earth sciences News Expedition aimed to mitigate earthquake risk in New Zealand Seismic data from colliding Pacific and Australian plates could reveal fault slip secrets Read article: Expedition aimed to mitigate earthquake risk in New Zealand
Earth sciences Research update How forests could limit earthquake damage to buildings Calculations show that rows of trees can block Love waves Read article: How forests could limit earthquake damage to buildings
Earth sciences Research update Wave attenuation hints at nature of Earth’s asthenosphere Low viscosity layer enables plate tectonics, but its cause remains unconfirmed Read article: Wave attenuation hints at nature of Earth’s asthenosphere
Earth sciences Research update Gravitational effect reveals earthquake magnitude Secondary waves induced ahead of the primary wavefront carry additional information Read article: Gravitational effect reveals earthquake magnitude
Earth sciences Research update Earth’s body tide hints at deep mantle structure Flash Physics: need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Earth’s body tide hints at deep mantle structure
Earth sciences News Neutrino detector could see radioactive potassium deep within the Earth Proposed experiment would boost our understanding of what heats our planet's interior Read article: Neutrino detector could see radioactive potassium deep within the Earth
Earth sciences Research update Rough faults generate slow earthquakes Experiments shed new light on how fault roughness affects earthquake nucleation Read article: Rough faults generate slow earthquakes
Earth sciences Research update Did embryonic plate tectonics give birth to the continents? Early plate tectonics linked to rise of landmasses and maybe even increase in atmospheric oxygen Read article: Did embryonic plate tectonics give birth to the continents?