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Separated by more than 600 miles of land, the epicenter of Friday’s earthquake in Myanmar was far from the skyscrapers of Bangkok. The collapse of a…
Fractures on the surface of Mars photographed by the European Space Agency’s Mars Expresscraft in January 2018 ESA/DLR/FU Berlin Thousands of mystical earthquakes on Mars that…
Horse Hill Oil Site was discovered in 2015Invicta Kent Media/Shutterstock More than 100 earthquakes that shook southern England were likely caused by oil drilling, experts say.…
A replica of the “Welcome Stranger,” a 100 kg gold nugget discovered in Australia in 1869.Ian Dagnall/Alamy Earthquakes can create electric fields that attract gold dissolved…
Amplify: To increase the number, amount, or other measure of a response. Note The phenomenon of focusing mental resources on a particular object or event. average:…
Earth can be visualized as a chaotic mass of rocky tectonic plates floating on a sea of molten metal. These plates are constantly moving and rubbing…
Tutuila, the largest island in the U.S. territory of American Samoa Peto Laszlo/Alamy The Samoa Islands are sinking at an accelerated pace after earthquakes caused deformation…