Understanding Landslides: A New Model for Predicting Motion Oct. 17, 2024 — Along coastal California, the possibility of earthquakes and landslides are commonly prefaced by the phrase ...

We learn about the Alaska-based effort to monitor and warn about tsunamis. Scientists are working to better understand seismic activity in all forms, whether that’s an earthquake, landslide or ...

The risk of undersea landslides and their potential to cause tsunamis along New Zealand’s east coast is being investigated by scientists aboard the German research vessel RV Sonne as part of a ...

Dec. 13, 2024 — Tsunamis can cause immense physical damage to ports, but the economic cost does not stop there. The resultant disruptions of shipping lanes result in billions of dollars in ...

“If these landslides happened again, we know they could cause devastating tsunamis,” Niwa marine geoscientist Dr Joshu Mountjoy said. “What we are trying to understand is where and when they ...

VANCOUVER - A retreating glacier in a remote British Columbia valley caused a massive landslide that crested a 100-metre tall tsunami ... when it runs into a large lake,” he said in an interview.

The risk of undersea landslides and their potential to cause tsunamis along New Zealand’s east coast is being investigated by scientists aboard the German research vessel RV Sonne as part of a ...

This is because an earthquake-generated landslide can fall into the sound and turn it into a violent, long-lasting maelstrom ...

This is, in itself, very challenging, involving a cascade of models (the likelihood of an earthquake, the resultant likelihood of landslide, the characteristics of the tsunami, etc.). The authors ...

Western Canada’s glacier melt is accelerating at an alarming rate because of human-caused climate change, according to a global study co-authored by one of B.C.’s top glaciologists. The findings, ...