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What Causes the Tectonic Plates to Move?
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe Plate Boundary Observatory, set up in 2004 by UNAVCO (funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA) as a network of Earth-measuring...
California's water wars see some breakthroughs but more clashes loom
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe politics of water in California could be likened to the constant grinding of tectonic plates 10...
Updated Formula on Alien Intelligence Suggests We Really Are Alone in the Galaxy
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 7 days agoAstronomer Frank Drake formulated his influential equation in 1961 to estimate the number of...
Why do earthquakes happen far away from plate boundaries?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoIt's well known that earthquakes can rock fault-filled places like the U.S. West Coast. But why do...
Earthquake near Seattle could produce massive 20ft tsunami within minutes, state warns
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIf a major earthquake were to hit off the coast of Seattle, the resulting tremors could send a...
New Zealand has had dozens of 'slow' earthquakes that can last weeks. A hidden underwater sea may be...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 7 months agoNapier sits along Hawke Bay on New Zealand's eastern coast, near the Hikurangi Plateau.Walter...
Watch 'unprecedented' animation showcasing 100 million years of Earth history
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoStills showing Earth's elevation and erosion rates from a new model of 100 million years of...
Is Africa Splitting in Two? Really? Here's the Scoop
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe notion of Africa splitting has the attention scientists and geologists worldwide, as the Great Rift Valley stretches and tears at the Earth's crust.
Volcanoes like Kīlauea and Mauna Loa don't erupt like we thought they did, scientists discover
Live Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe magma that erupts from basaltic volcanoes in the middle of tectonic plates originates from...
What causes earthquakes? A geologist explains where they're most common and why
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA man works his way through the rubble of buildings in Marrakesh, Morocco, after a magnitude 6.8...