In a study appearing in Science Advances, the researchers report that episodes of heavy snowfall and rain likely contributed to a swarm of earthquakes over the past several years in northern Japan.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Since late 2020, the northeastern region of Japan’s Noto Peninsula has been shaken by a relentless barrage ...
Earthquakes are caused by a sudden movement along faults within the Earth, but new research by MIT scientists suggests that heavy snowfall and rain could play a role play in setting off tremors.
When scientists look for an earthquake’s cause, their search often starts underground. As centuries of seismic studies have ...
Sitting on top of four major tectonic plates, Japan is one of the countries most at risk of earthquakes. That fact was demonstrated in tragic and dramatic fashion on Jan. 1, when a magnitude 7.6 ...
A patch of heavy rain might force you to change your plans for a few days. But for the residents of a few Japanese districts, torrential showers have begun to shake up a little more than their ...
The regions of Swabia and Upper Bavaria are highlighted. - Continuous rain leads to increasing water levels, triggering the first ...
The Provincial Meteorological Center in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday predicted rain with moderate to heavy snowfall over the ...
Rain with thunderstorm and snowfall over mountains is expected in most parts of the country during the next twelve hours.
If the Antarctic ice sheet stopped melting, it would take nearly 200 years to rebuild the lost ice, researchers say. This ...
Safety, Environment and Technology Supervision Research Institute of PetroChina Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company, Chengdu ...