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The strongest aftershocks in 1933 led to the deaths of more than 120 people. American geophysicists have determined the cause of the four major earthquakes that occurred in the early twentieth century in southern California, the anthropogenic factor. The study is published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of …

NASA discovered tectonic activity on mercury. Mercury was the second after the Earth planet in the Solar system, which there is tectonic activity. Dedicated to this research geophysicists mission MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging ) is published in the Nature Geoscience magazine, briefly about it, reports NASA. …

The most powerful and most destructive earthquakes occur during the full moon, say Japanese scientists. Japanese researchers came to the conclusion that the probability of earthquakes increases during periods when the gravitational influence of the Sun and moon on our planet becoming the greatest, i.e., during the full moon. The …

Federal US regulators came to the conclusion that the recent earthquakes in the us state of Texas, obviously, associated with the disposal of waste water during drilling in the oil and gas industry, which confirms the findings of scientists of the universities of the state, writes Reuters. Officials of the …

Earthquakes occur most often during the waxing moon. Paul Jones and his scientists colleagues from the National Observatory in Los Alamos revealed the relationship between seismic tremors in California and the phases of the moon. Earthquake shake the San Andreas fault almost every week. This idea of scientists pushed data …

American scientists came to the conclusion that weak earthquakes can be caused by the combined influence of the Sun and moon. The researchers studied the cause of low-frequency earthquakes, which are a subspecies of slow earthquakes that don’t cause significant damage. During slow earthquakes, tectonic plates have shifted for several …

Every Monday we tell you about the most interesting news that happened this weekend. This week in our review were: the news that the film by Russian Director Ivan I. Tverdovsky was awarded at the festival in Karlovy vary, a new trailer for the disaster movie “Earthquake” as well as …

Invented a bed that can protect you from earthquakes.Imagine that you Wake up in the night by a severe earthquake. The walls and ceiling is about to collapse on you, and time to pack up and get out of the house you have is unlikely to succeed. What to do? …

British scientists came to the conclusion that earthquakes are the result of geological events of antiquity. Employees of the University of Aberdeen in the UK, found that ancient geological events can be related to earthquakes, mountain building and other geomorphological processes on Earth. According to experts, everything that happened to …

The Mullah from Ghana have called the main cause of earthquakes, in his opinion. In Ghana Mullah Mahmoud Abbas encouraged attacks on homosexuals, saying that gay sex is the cause of natural disasters. “Allah outraged when men enter into a sexual relationship. These relationships become the cause of earthquakes,” said …