Researchers have discovered a sea’s worth of water locked within the sediment and rock of a lost volcanic plateau that’s now deep in the Earth’s crust. Revealed by a 3D seismic image, the water lies two miles under the ocean floor off the coast of New Zealand, where it may be dampening a major earthquake… Continue Reading Discovery of Massive Undersea Water Reservoir Could Explain New Zealand’s Mysterious Slow Earthquakes
In Search of the Next Big One
Subduction zones are the source of the world’s most dangerous earthquakes and tsunamis. UTIG’s researchers are on a mission to understand them By Constantino Panagopulos On Jan. 26, 1700, a barrage of tsunamis ripped across the Pacific Ocean at the speed of a jet liner. The 100-foot waves slammed into the northwest coast of America… Continue Reading In Search of the Next Big One
Andrew Gase and Brandon Shuck among 2018 GeoPRISMS AGU Student Prize Winners
Congratulations to Brandon Shuck and Andrew Gase who were among the winners of the 2018 GeoPRISMS AGU Student Prize! The GeoPRISMS AGU Student Prize is awarded to students for outstanding research presented as either a talk or poster presentation at the annual AGU Fall meeting. Each year two students receive a $500 cash prize and… Continue Reading Andrew Gase and Brandon Shuck among 2018 GeoPRISMS AGU Student Prize Winners