UPDATE: It appears that the 7.2 quake on March 9 was a foreshock for an 8.8/8.9 megaquake in roughly the same area. More coverage on the top news and top … [Read full article]
Category: Earthquakes
Extreme Super Moon To Cause Major Earthquakes?
Coming up later this month (March 19 to be exact) the moon will make its closest approach to Earth (called lunar perigee) in 18 years. A new or full moon … [Read full article]
Arkansas Earthquakes Linked to Fracking? Two Gas Disposal Sites Suspended
Arkansas has been rocked with earthquakes and now scientists are investigating their relationship to earthquakes, as two natural gas companies have agreed to temporarily suspend use of injection wells in central … [Read full article]
NASA Spacecraft Images New Zealand Quake Region
A day after a powerful magnitude 6.3 earthquake rocked Christchurch, a city of 377,000 on New Zealand’s South Island, on Feb. 22, 2011, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection … [Read full article]
Earthquakes in New Zealand
Earthquakes are one of those phenomenon that occur and immediately elicit sympathy and empathy from those watching on TV. But they seem like they’re a semi-irregular occurrence, taking place maybe … [Read full article]
Aerial Footage of Earthquake Aftermath in Christchurch
Russia Today, on their YouTube channel, has posted footage taken of the Christchurch in the aftermath of the 6.3-magnitude earthquake that hit on Tuesday.
Australia Assists in NZ Quake Rescue
With the scale of just how hard and damaging the recent 6.3-magnitude quake quickly increasing with each hour that passes, with each revision of the dead and missing, Australia has … [Read full article]
Earthquake in New Zealand (More Info)
I’ve already covered the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand from a human perspective, including sharing a number of photos from the disaster, and covered the tremendous 30 million tons of … [Read full article]
Christchurch, New Zealand Quake Knocks 30 Million Tons of Ice off Glacier
In addition to the horrible human catastrophe that is currently unfolding from the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that just struck Christchurch, New Zealand earlier today, the quake has apparently caused 30 … [Read full article]
New Zealand Earthquake Kills 65 or More [PICTURES]
A horrible catastrophe has just struck New Zealand. A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand’s 2nd-most-populated city, Christchurch. Striking in the middle of a busy weekday afternoon, at least 65 have been killed and many more trapped.
Chinese Records Shed Light on Earthquake Mechanisms
The Chinese have been recording and describing the earthquakes that rumble underneath their country for the past two-thousand years. Using this data, University of Missouri researcher Mian Liu, professor of … [Read full article]
Mass Bird & Fish Deaths Caused by Hydraulic Fracking & Earthquakes?
Jeremy Bloom of our sister site Red, Green, and Blue has a great follow-up to the mass bird death story that gets into the very likely possibility that the deaths … [Read full article]
More Possible Explanations for Mass Bird Deaths, Birds Falling from Sky
Thankfully, our recent story on 3,000-5,000 blackbirds falling from the sky and dying in Arkansas on New Year’s Eve has gotten quite a few comments and brought up some additional … [Read full article]