At least 42 people are confirmed dead and more than 600 injured after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi early Friday morning.
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Fracking Likely Triggered Earthquakes in California a Few Miles From the San Andreas Fault
Thomas H. Goebel
The way companies drill for oil and gas and dispose of wastewater can trigger earthquakes, at times in unexpected places.
In West Texas, earthquake rates are now 30 times higher than they were in 2013. Studies have also linked earthquakes to oil field operations in Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and Ohio.
Chart: The Conversation / CC-BY-ND Source: Thomas Goebel / University of Memphis; Oklahoma Geological Survey Get the data
Chart: The Conversation / CC-BY-ND. Source: Thomas Goebel / University of Memphis; U.S. Geological Survey Get the data
Satellite data shows the ground rising as much as 1.5 centimeters per year in parts of the San Ardo oil field. The line-of-sight velocity (LOS-VEL), as viewed from the satellite, shows how rapidly the ground surface is rising. Thomas Goebel / University of Memphis
The stresses from injecting water can trigger earthquakes several miles from the well itself. The blue triangles scale with each well's injection rate. Thomas Goebel/University of Memphis / CC BY-ND
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The biggest earthquake in decades rattled New England Sunday morning.
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A mild but "relatively uncommon" earthquake rattled central New Jersey early Wednesday morning.
<div id="7cc4a" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="fc0ef9a7f4b14256185b5968ad096eae"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1303579294841663488" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">The #earthquake M3.1 In #NJ was well felt within 30 miles of its epicenter. This map represent the eyewitnesses' re… https://t.co/dT0MtwnY8I</div> — EMSC (@EMSC)<a href="https://twitter.com/LastQuake/statuses/1303579294841663488">1599632497.0</a></blockquote></div>
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Alaskans were rattled by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake Tuesday night that sent people fleeing for higher ground in case of a possible tsunami, before the warning was canceled.
<div id="d0ed7" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ec99e5a42425af683ade8fd6b9374c90"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1285884824293646336" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">M 7.8 earthquake strikes 105 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska. Tsunami warning canceled. https://t.co/bUwKvi65Lg Le… https://t.co/DlORAa8a2I</div> — USGS (@USGS)<a href="https://twitter.com/USGS/statuses/1285884824293646336">1595413807.0</a></blockquote></div>
<div id="2555c" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ff8223dcb0d414e1b97fafad5bfa5fd2"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1285826396325949441" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Tsunami warning in kodiak AK https://t.co/pBio9lnWDF</div> — Tyler 🏳️🌈 (@Tyler 🏳️🌈)<a href="https://twitter.com/Tyler82092707/statuses/1285826396325949441">1595399877.0</a></blockquote></div><p>The warnings were canceled by 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. However, a tsunami measuring 0.8 feet was reported in the city of Sand Point, according to CBS.</p><p>Because of its size and characteristics, Tuesday's quake had the potential to be devastating.</p><p>For one thing, it was shallow, measuring six miles, or 10 kilometers, deep, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/us/alaska-7-8-magnitude-earthquake/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a> reported. </p><p>"Anything below 70 kilometers is considered a shallow quake," CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar explained. "That's important, because shallow earthquakes often cause the most damage, compared to the ones that are deeper, regardless of the strength."</p><p>Shallow quakes are also more likely to produce tsunamis, according to the <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-it-about-earthquake-causes-a-tsunami?qt-news_science_products=0#qt-news_science_products" target="_blank">U.S. Geological Survey</a>. </p>
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By Fabian Schmidt
Researchers have discovered an interesting similarity in two of the largest recent earthquakes in Japan and Chile: a strange large-scale ground movement back and forth in the months leading up to the quake.
Whole Continental Plate 'Wobbles'
<p>Bedford and his colleagues analyzed how the ground stations in Japan and Chile had moved in the five years before the two quakes. They noticed that the motion of the continental plate on which the stations are located had been reversed several times in the last five months before the quake (in the case of Japan) and seven months (in the case of Chile). The researchers published <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2212-1" target="_blank">their results</a> in the scientific journal <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2212-1" target="_blank">Nature</a>.</p><p>Both plate boundaries are subduction zones. Subduction is the process of one plate diving under another. In both study regions, the oceanic plates are subducting underneath the continental plates and meet at a place called the trench, which for both cases is submerged under the ocean. Normally, the continental plate is pressed by the oceanic plate and thus pushed away from the trench. However, the geophysicists have now discovered that this movement was first reversed in the direction of the trench, then away from the trench, then back towards the trench again.</p>Same Movement Over Thousands of Kilometers
<p>They call this phenomenon "wobbling," due to its appearance in the GNSS time series. The amplitude of this movement is not particularly great — it was only between 4 and 8 millimeters — but Bedford points out that this is significant compared to the relative plate motion that can be a few centimeters per year. Furthermore, the spatial extent of the signal extended thousands of kilometers along the plate boundaries.</p><p>"It is a common assumption that deeper subduction proceeds at a fairly constant speed in between large earthquakes," says Bedford. "Our study shows that this assumption is an oversimplification. In fact, its variability might be a key factor in understanding how the largest earthquakes nucleate." </p><p>With global satellite tracking now becoming better and better, and with accurate data available for the first time in decades, earthquake researchers have an ever-increasing ability to make such observations.</p><p>"We can now trace movements back decades," says Bedford. "In the next stage, we'd like to monitor the changes in near real time."</p>Not Suitable as an Early Warning System
<p>Until now, seismologists have been more able to say <em>where</em> large earthquakes are likely to occur — less able to say <em>when</em>. By simply calculating the magnitude of the last large earthquake in a region and knowing the average relative plate velocity, one can estimate when that fault will be mature enough to sustain a repeat event, although there are great uncertainties in this approach. This is because sometimes a fault will rupture only over a smaller area (e.g. with a "large" magnitude 8 event) and other times it will rupture over many magnitude 8 regions all at once (e.g. in a "mega" magnitude 9 event).</p><p>Could an observed untypical plate movement therefore give us a better warning of an imminent earthquake? Not really. </p><p>"It would not be wise for a geophysicist to issue such a warning," is Bedford's sobering answer. "The observed signals of this study are not necessarily precursory movements of a major quake."</p><p>More research is necessary and as a matter of principle, people in known earthquake areas should not let their guard down. </p><p>"The general public should always be prepared," Bedford warns.</p>Idaho residents were rattled Tuesday evening by the biggest earthquake to shake the state in almost 40 years.
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By Richard Aster
Multiple strong and damaging earthquakes in southern Puerto Rico starting around Dec. 28, 2019 have killed at least one person, caused many serious injuries and collapsed numerous buildings, including a multistory school in the town of Guánica that luckily was empty at the time. These quakes are the most damaging to strike Puerto Rico since 1918, and the island has been under a state of emergency since Jan. 6, 2020.
Multiple faults crisscross the eastern Caribbean. Those outlined in red have a potential to generate a large earthquake. The arrow at top right shows the direction of the North American plate's motion relative to the Caribbean plate. Red stars denote intensity centers for past earthquakes. USGS