Tag: earthquakes
March 8, 2021
Texas Earthquake System Strengthens National Network
Now in its fifth year of operation, the Bureau of Economic Geology’s TexNet earthquake monitoring system manages more than 150 seismic stations throughout Texas and…
Read MoreMarch 2, 2020
Sinking Sea Mountains Make and Muffle Earthquakes
Subduction zones — places where one tectonic plate dives beneath another — are where the world’s largest and most damaging earthquakes occur. A new study…
Read MoreNovember 4, 2019
Historical Data Confirms Recent Increase in West Texas Earthquakes
A new analysis of historical seismic data led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that earthquake activity in West Texas near the…
Read MoreOctober 15, 2019
Seismic Monitoring Program Links Some West Texas Earthquakes to Hydraulic Fracturing
A new study by scientists of the TexNet Seismic Monitoring Program shows that some of the recent earthquake activity in the Delaware Basin of West…
Read MoreMay 5, 2016
World’s Shallowest Slow-Motion Earthquakes Detected Off New Zealand’s Coast
Research published in the May 6 edition of Science indicates that slow-motion earthquakes or “slow-slip events” can rupture the shallow portion of a fault that…
Read MoreJune 23, 2015
Money Approved for Texas Earthquake Study
Researchers will begin moving quickly to study what may be making the earth move in North Texas after Gov. Greg Abbott approved $4.5 million to…
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