Covering earthquakes is getting to be a tiring, depressing business lately. From the horrific ongoing tragedy in Haiti that started with a magnitude 7.0 tremor in January to strong quakes in Japan, Taiwan, Chile, and just this morning, a magnitude ...
The internet is abuzz today with the news that Saturday's massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile shortened Earth's day by about 1.26 microseconds (one microsecond is a millionth of a second) and nudged the planet's axis of balanced mass a ...
For the people of the Juan Fernandez Islands and the coastal town of Talcahuano in Chile, Saturday morning's tsunami certainly didn't feel small. On the heels of a titanic magnitude 8.8 earthquake, surges of ocean water over 7 feet high ...
The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that rattled Chile is similar to the Indian Ocean one that triggered devastating tsunamis in 2004. It belongs to a special class of quake called a megathrust.
At the heart of our energy problems today is a raging political debate: should we continue to expand our ability to extract coal, natural gas, and oil from Earth, or should we turn to technologically complex renewable energies? Here's an ...
Earth's earliest creatures may have dragged themselves along like a sea anemone some 565 million years ago.
Earth can do strange things to continents. Like eat them, for example. Previously, the planet's hot interior was only known to have an appetite for ocean crust, consuming it in subduction zones around the world. Continental crust was thought to ...
This is normal. Most of the 1,600 or so quakes since January 17 have been very mellow. Yeah, it sounds like a lot of qukes to have happen in a couple of weeks, but the vast majority of these have ...
For all of the hell that Indonesia's been though in the past five years, its people sure could use some good news. Unfortunately, the latest round of reports are a mixed bag, and a fairly ominous one at that. First, ...
The predominant theory of the origin of life would make a terrific setting for a space horror movie, or a particularly tense episode of Star Trek: picture early Earth, a noxious place devoid of oxygen, its young oceans choked with ...
