The annual number of “great” earthquakes nearly tripled over the last decade, providing a reminder to Americans that unruptured faults like those in the northwest United States might be due for a Big One. Between 2004 and 2014, 18 earthquakes with magnitudes of 8.0 or more rattled subduction zones around the globe. That’s an increase of 265 percent over the average rate of the previous century, which saw 71 great quakes, according to a report to the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America this week in Vancouver, British Columbia…One of the researchers scoping out Cascadia’s history of ancient earthquakes is Benjamin Horton, a professor in the department of marine and coastal science at Rutgers University.
Ice on the Beach: How Hail Forms on Hot Days
On a warm summer day, beachgoers in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk were filmed fleeing for cover after hailstones started falling from the sky. The temperature was 98 degrees, according to AccuWeather. How does it hail in the middle of summer? It’s a…
After Hurricane Sandy kills parents, Rutgers student must raise 3 siblings
A 19-year-old Rutgers University student has decided to put college on hold to care for her three younger siblings after their parents were killed by a falling tree during Hurricane Sandy."At 11 p.m. on Oct. 29, I found out both of my parents had b…