All Articles Tagged As: asia

Major flooding risk could span decades after Chinese earthquake (9/7/2008)

Up to 20 million people are at increased risk of flooding and major power shortages in China's massive Sichuan Basin. ...> Full Article

China's first successful sampling of ice core in Mongolia (9/6/2008)

This is the first successful attempt for Chinese scientists to obtain ice core samples from a foreign site except the polar areas. ...> Full Article

Geologists push back date basins formed, supporting frozen Earth theory (7/5/2008)

Even in geology, it's not often a date gets revised by 500 million years. ...> Full Article

Stress Buildup Precedes Large Sumatra Quakes (5/30/2008)

The island of Sumatra, Indonesia, has shaken many times with powerful earthquakes since the one that wrought the infamous 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami ...> Full Article

World's fastest-growing mud volcano is collapsing, says new research (5/29/2008)

The world's fastest-growing mud volcano is collapsing and could subside to depths of more than 140 metres with consequences for the surrounding environment ...> Full Article

Scientists identified earthquake faults in Sichuan, China (5/19/2008)

Only last summer research published by earth scientists in the international journal Tectonics concluded that geological faults in the Sichuan Basin, China "are sufficiently long to sustain a strong ground-shaking earthquake, making them potentially serious sources of regional seismic hazard." ...> Full Article

Funding to study earthquake region (5/18/2008)

A major research consortium has just started to investigate the causes of devastating earthquakes in south-east Asia ...> Full Article

Geosciences Professor Measuring Aftershocks of China Earthquake (5/18/2008)

Professor and students study seismic activity of critical area near China's largest hydroelectric dam. ...> Full Article

Journey to the Center of the Earth: Discovery Sheds Light on Mantle Formation (4/13/2008)

Geologist unearths ancient rocks from ocean floor dating back two billion years ...> Full Article

Earthquake predictions prove accurate for researchers (3/3/2008)

Two large earthquakes have occurred in quick succession in Sumatra, Western Indonesia, only months after University of Queensland researchers publicly identified the area as a high-risk zone for seismic activity. ...> Full Article

Earthquake theory stretched in Central Asia study (2/26/2008)

The entrenched political instability in Pakistan and Afghanistan is of grave concern to many in the West - but now geologists at ANU have suggested a new cause for the seismic instability that regularly rocks the region. ...> Full Article

Newly Discovered Active Fault Building New Islands Off Croatian Coast (1/24/2008)

Research has found that a newly identified fault under the Adriatic Sea is actively building more islands off Croatia. ...> Full Article