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Taking Earth’s pulse: How to predict eruptions from space

Our planet’s inner stirrings manifest as moving bulges on the surface. Now an eye in the sky is watching them to help predict disasters and save lives

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Life

Children run Everest Marathon after quake destroys their home

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Yellowstone National Park

Earth

Yellowstone National Park hit by 1400 earthquakes in six weeks

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A fault on the Earth's surface seen from the air

Earth

Nowcasting may help forecast big earthquakes in 53 major cities

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Earth

Map of the underworld may let us play plate tectonics in reverse

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Torrents of water sweep over Japan's Fukushima prefecture in 2011

Earth

Seabed seismic sensors would have cut 2011 Japan tsunami toll

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Earth

Planet Earth makes its own water from scratch deep in the mantle

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Aftermath of an earthquake in Nepal, showing a collapsed building

Technology

Seismic sensing app detects 200 earthquakes in first six months

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Humans

The world's first seismometer used a toad to catch an earthquake

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People survey damage to a buckled road

Earth

New Zealand’s latest earthquake could trigger a mega-quake

Monday’s earthquake was relatively close to a major fault that hasn’t ruptured since 1717, raising fears that an even bigger quake could be triggered soon

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Why San Francisco’s next quake could be much bigger than feared

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Italy to test earthquake predictor to reduce deaths and damage

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Earth

Floating lab drills 1.5km below sea floor to study megaquakes

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Magnitude 6 earthquake in Italy destroys towns and kills dozens

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