A mild but “relatively uncommon” earthquake rattled central New Jersey early Wednesday morning. The 3.1 magnitude quake lasted 13 seconds and was epicentered about a mile and a half from Freehold Township, U.S. Geological Survey scientist Robert Sanders told North Jersey.com. The quake struck around 2 a.m. and was felt throughout central New Jersey and […]
Croatia’s capital of Zagreb was rocked Sunday by its strongest earthquake in 140 years, which pushed people out into the streets at exactly the moment they were supposed to stay indoors to fight the spread of the coronavirus. The earthquake caused widespread damage, injured 17 and forced hospitals to evacuate, The Guardian reported. But earthquake […]
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake shook the Caribbean Tuesday, rattling people from Miami to Mexico. The quake struck at 2:10 p.m. and had its epicenter 86 miles northwest of Montego Bay, Jamaica and 87 miles southwest of Niquero, Cuba. It prompted evacuations in Miami and opened sinkholes in the Cayman Islands, but so far there have […]
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 […]
The second-most active volcano in the Philippines belched to life on Sunday when it sent a cloud of ash miles into the air that forced thousands to evacuate and shuttered the airport in the capital of Manila. The eruption of the Taal volcano continued Monday when it began gushing lava, The Associated Press reported. People […]
Mysterious hums that were heard around the world in 2018 have now been identified as the rumblings of a magma-filled reservoir deep under the Indian Ocean, announcing the birth of an underwater volcano, according to a new study, as CNN reported. Researchers started to detect seismic movement from the birth of the volcano in May […]
Over the past decade, climate-fueled disasters drove over 20 million people a year from their homes, concluded a report released by Oxfam on Monday. The Oxfam study, titled “Forced from Home,” was released as two weeks of UN climate negotiations kick-start in Madrid. It examined the numbers of people displaced inside their home countries by […]
Powerful hurricanes and other storms can actually cause small earthquakes in the ocean, scientists have found. “We’re calling them ‘stormquakes,’” study lead author and Florida State University (FSU) assistant professor Wenyuan Fan told Florida State University News. How exactly does it work? “During a storm season, hurricanes or nor’easters transfer energy into the ocean as […]
By Matthew Ross Modern society relies on metals like copper, gold and nickel for uses ranging from medicine to electronics. Most of these elements are rare in Earth’s crust, so mining them requires displacing vast volumes of dirt and rock. Hard rock mining – so called because it refers to excavating hard minerals, not softer […]
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