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How Do Earthquakes Happen?
Earthquakes happen when stress accumulated in rocks is released suddenly as a fault slips. Tectonic plates move continuously, but friction can lock parts of their bounda…
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How Does Quantum Error Correction Work?
Quantum error correction protects fragile quantum information by encoding one logical qubit across several physical qubits and repeatedly measuring error information wit…
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Just discovered a 72km 'tear in the Earth', the world's second largest country is in fear of a tsunami attack
About 400,000 people are at risk of being hit by a tsunami after a 72km fault line was discovered by scientists.
Conquer Mars
NASA discovered a gem mine on Mars, are aliens 'guarding' it?
The lucky Mars rover Curiosity has captured a strange image of a glowing fissure that houses a gem deposit that could be evidence of life.
History
The deadliest day in human history 500 years ago
An earthquake in China about 500 years ago killed 100,000 people in just one day.
Environment
A 3.5 magnitude earthquake occurred in Luc Yen, Yen Bai
A strong earthquake of 3.5 degrees (magnitude M) occurred in Luc Yen district (Yen Bai) on the afternoon of May 29. People near the epicenter clearly felt the shaking.
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Why can earthquakes occur far from tectonic plate boundaries?
Scientists think that about 90% of earthquakes occur in areas near tectonic plate boundaries, but sometimes they can occur in unexpected remote locations.
Environment
The Da River fault zone causes earthquakes in Ninh Binh
The earthquake in Nho Quan district, Ninh Binh on the morning of May 27 was due to the activity of the Da River fault zone, a level 2 fault, according to experts from th…
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Active volcano discovered at the bottom of the world's deepest lake
Video cameras mounted on autonomous underwater robots recorded volcanic cracks near a potentially active fault under Lake Baikal, Siberia.
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Why did Taiwan have little damage despite a strong earthquake?
Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire and regularly exposed to earthquakes, Taiwan is carefully prepared to respond to this type of natural disaster.
Environment
Taiwan's anti-earthquake efforts after the 921 disaster
The earthquake that claimed the lives of more than 2,400 people in 1999 prompted Taiwan to change its construction regulations and focus on strengthening against vibrati…
Environment
An earthquake of magnitude 4 occurred, causing shaking in many areas in Hanoi
On the morning of March 25, many people in some areas of Hanoi said they clearly felt the shaking caused by the aftershock of the magnitude 4 earthquake that recently oc…
Environment
Cause of the earthquake in Hanoi on the morning of March 25
According to the director of the Institute of Geophysics, the earthquake in My Duc that caused shaking in the center of Hanoi this morning was because it was located in…
Space science
NASA claims: Mysterious door on Mars is 'entrance to ancient past'
The first Mars citizen operating group, Curiosity, has just made the first official statement about a structure resembling a mysterious man-made door on the red planet.
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9 minutes after takeoff, the plane crashed, killing 160 passengers: Fault in the plug
A mistake when plugging in the plug on the flight caused the plane to plunge to the ground, killing 160 passengers.