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15th century Hebrew prayer book fills gap in Italian earthquake record

The note, a witness to devastation, is a rare record of an earthquake that once struck the Marche region in the central Apennines.

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Explosive new research could spark future diamond discoveries

Direct link between the breakup of tectonic plates and the genesis of diamond-rich magmas that surge from the Earth's deepest realms.

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Cutting-edge fiber optic cables detect and characterize earthquakes

In a new study at Caltech, scientists report using a section of fiber optic cable to measure intricate details of a magnitude 6 earthquake

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Researchers predict the Earth’s future by revealing its last 100 million years

Scientists today have published new research revealing a detailed and dynamic model of the Earth’s surface over the past 100 million years.

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X-rays and diamonds reveal Earth's inner core secrets

Surprisingly we do not have much information about the center of the planet that we live on. What lies beneath our feet is not well known.

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Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs triggered “mega-earthquake” that lasted months

New evidence suggests that the Chicxulub impact also triggered an earthquake so massive that it shook the planet for weeks to months.

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Tug from sun and moon might be the actual cause of earthquakes

Earth’s plates might be shifting because the sun exerts such a strong gravitational pull on the moon that its orbit is elongating.

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Researchers discover a new type of earthquake and it's man made

A Canadian-German research team have documented a new type of earthquake in an injection environment in British Columbia, Canada.

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Earth’s iron core may not be a solid as scientists once thought

3,200 miles beneath Earth’s surface lies the inner core, a ball-shaped mass of mostly iron that is responsible for Earth’s magnetic field.

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NASA Balloon Detects California Earthquake – Next Stop, Venus?

The technique is being developed to detect venusquakes. A new study details how it made the first balloon-borne detection of a quakes