Events

The Earthquakes Occurred inTajikistan on December 7, 2015

Earthquake Tajikistan

2018-03-21

The December 7, 2015 M 7.2 earthquake in Tajikistan occurred as the result of strike-slip faulting within the crust of the Eurasi...
The August 30, 2013 Earthquake in the Alaska Aleutian Islands

Earthquake Alaska

2018-03-21

The August 30, 2013 M 7.0 earthquake southeast of Adak, Alaska, occurred as the result of thrust faulting on or near the subducti...
Earthquake Occurred in Solomon Islands on April 12, 2014

Earthquake Solomon Islands

2018-03-21

The April 12, 2014 M 7.6 Solomon Islands earthquake occurred as the result of nearly pure transform faulting, likely on a NW-SE o...
Central California/San Francisco Bay Earthquake Hazards Project, 1998

Earthquake Hazard

2018-03-06

The San Francisco Bay area is located in a broad zone of active crustal deformation driven by the motions of the North American an...
Flooding may spur algae in Lake Erie

Flood

2018-03-02

The torrential rains that have pounded Ohio in the past few weeks have flooded basements and sent creeks spilling into roadways. T...
Worst natural disasters of 2015---Heat wave hits southern India

India natural disaster

2018-02-05

The floods came on the heels of one of India’s longest heat waves in years, which claimed 2,000 people lives in Andhra Pradesh an...