The Himalayas are seismically an active mountain belt and require long term planning of townships and other long term measures to mitigate disasters

Geologists at Stanford Univer

Slow, creeping movements of the earth might actually precede earthquakes, according to Clifford H Thurber, a geologist at the University of Wisconsin, US. Monitoring these creep events in the

Massive earthquakes that shook the American midwest in the last century were attributed to movements in the New Madrid fault zone in southern Missouri. Reportedly, there are innumerable such

Earthquake free regions may be pinpointed by studying the number of delicately poised rocks that dot them

With the help of a cheap seismograph you can now monitor quakes, small or large, without taking the trouble of moving out of your backyard

WILL it quake or will it not? That is the topic being hotly debated by seismologists and environmentalists regarding the Tehri dam project in Tehri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh (up). The latest in the

The explosive growth in the use of cellular telephones is threatening the field of radio astronomy which investigates everything from the formation of galaxies to finding better ways of

Japan is setting up a US $40 million laser-based monitoring station - Keystone - to help predict earthquakes. It will he set up around the Tokyo Bay area which lies at the junction of

Earthquakes occurring below oceans have been the subject of intense speculation of seismologists across the globe. Theories of the past have failed to pinpoint the exact cause of why or how earthquakes ensue. A new theory now tries to demystify t

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