Hacker News with Generative AI: Earthquakes

The Really Big One (2015) (newyorker.com)
When the next full-margin rupture happens, that region will suffer the worst natural disaster in the history of North America, outside of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, which killed upward of a hundred thousand people.

Earthquakes, Natural Disasters, North America

38 points by Tomte 3 days ago | 14 comments

Native American names extend earthquake history of northeastern North America (phys.org)
In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong shaking and water sloshing out of the pots used by Native Americans to cook a midday meal along the St. Lawrence River, according to contemporaneous reports.

Earthquakes, History, Native Americans, North America

72 points by pseudolus 7 days ago | 45 comments

What satellite images reveal about Myanmar's quake [video] (bbc.com)
The military government in Myanmar has said at least 2,000 people were killed in the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit last Friday.

Myanmar, Earthquakes, Satellite Imagery, Disaster Relief

49 points by diwank 25 days ago | 4 comments

Japan warns 'big one' earthquake could kill 300k people (ft.com)

Japan, Earthquakes, Natural Disasters, Prediction, Safety

8 points by marban 26 days ago | 2 comments

The Tectonics Behind the Myanmar Quake (nautil.us)
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on Friday afternoon local time near the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay. The quake caused extensive damage across Myanmar and also toppled a skyscraper under construction in Bangkok, Thailand, more than 600 miles away. After the quake, the Myanmar military junta declared a state of emergency in six regions and confirmed more than 100 people killed and many hundreds injured, while Thai officials reported at least seven deaths and scores of people missing.

Earthquakes, Myanmar, Thailand, Natural Disasters, Geopolitics

47 points by rbanffy 26 days ago | 7 comments

USGS: M 7.1 Earthquake – 90 km SE of Pangai, Tonga (usgs.gov)
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Earthquakes, Tonga, USGS

68 points by stefankuehnel 27 days ago | 22 comments

Analysis of amplified ground motion in Bangkok from recent earthquakes (2023) (springeropen.com)
Although Bangkok is situated a long distance from known active faults, recent moderate earthquakes (Mw ≥ 5.5) a large distance away (R > 600 km) in Myanmar, Northern Thailand, and the Andaman Islands always shake high-rise buildings as far away as Bangkok (Fig. 1a; Table 1).

Earthquakes, Thailand, Seismic Activity, Bangkok, Structural Engineering

16 points by KayEss 28 days ago | 0 comments

7.7M Violent Burma Earthquake (usgs.gov)
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Earthquakes, Natural Disasters, Burma

7 points by sizzle 29 days ago | 0 comments

7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand (twitter.com)
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Earthquakes, Southeast Asia, Natural Disasters

275 points by testrun 29 days ago | 109 comments

Orphan tsunami of 1700–Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in America (2015) (usgs.gov)
A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted that no parent earthquake had been felt; they were wondering what had set off the waves. They had no way knowing that the tsunami had been spawned during an earthquake along the coast of northwestern North America.

Tsunami, Earthquakes, History, Geology, North America

48 points by Tomte 29 days ago | 13 comments

1700 Cascadia Earthquake (wikipedia.org)
The 1700 Cascadia earthquake occurred along the Cascadia subduction zone on January 26, 1700, with an estimated moment magnitude of 8.7–9.2.

Earthquakes, Natural Disasters, Geology, History, Pacific Northwest

31 points by oliverkwebb 42 days ago | 2 comments

8.0-magnitude earthquake hits the Caribbean Sea (threads.net)

Earthquakes, Natural Disasters, Caribbean

8 points by pseudolus 76 days ago | 2 comments

Thousands flee Santorini as quakes rattle Greek tourist haven (cnn.com)

Natural Disasters, Greece, Travel, Santorini, Earthquakes

16 points by campuscodi 81 days ago | 0 comments

Santorini island hit by 200 earthquakes (cnn.com)

Earthquakes, Greece, Santorini

4 points by whatever1 83 days ago | 0 comments

Why Can't We Predict Earthquakes? (cacm.acm.org)
Earthquakes are among the deadliest natural disasters that strike human societies.

Earthquakes, Natural Disasters, Science

10 points by pseudolus 85 days ago | 1 comments

TSMC reportedly pauses production after strong earthquake hits Taiwan (theregister.com)
Taiwan has experienced an earthquake so significant that chipmaking champ TSMC has shuttered plants.

Taiwan, Earthquakes, Semiconductors, Technology, Manufacturing

6 points by LinuxBender 95 days ago | 1 comments

TSMC reportedly pauses production after strong earthquake hits Taiwan (theregister.com)
Taiwan has experienced an earthquake so significant that chipmaking champ TSMC has shuttered plants.

Taiwan, Earthquakes, Semiconductors, Manufacturing

6 points by mfiguiere 95 days ago | 0 comments

Tsunami warning canceled after 7.0 earthquake shakes California, Oregon (accuweather.com)
People along the coast of California and Oregon rushed to higher ground after a tsunami warning was issued on Thursday morning following a powerful earthquake just off the West Coast of the United States.

Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, California, Oregon

4 points by jpcom 142 days ago | 0 comments

The Rip in the World (longreads.com)
An unquiet bowl of orange rock-soup, filmed from above by a drone, played continuously on the sole television screen in the lobby. Standing in line with our luggage, we took in the boisterous sloshing of the lava, our wide eyes tracking each plume of gas against the soggy North Atlantic sky. It was a vision almost too dramatic to believe.

Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Natural Disasters, Travel

20 points by diodorus 179 days ago | 0 comments

Data viz project that maps all earthquakes by magnitude (concord.org)

Data Visualization, Earthquakes, Mapping, Data Science

86 points by therabbithole 184 days ago | 18 comments

'Unidentified Seismic Object' Shook Earth for Nine Days–Now We Know What It Was (theconversation.com)
Earthquake scientists detected an unusual signal on monitoring stations used to detect seismic activity during September 2023. We saw it on sensors everywhere, from the Arctic to Antarctica.

Earthquakes, Science, Geology

12 points by dylan604 224 days ago | 1 comments

Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook Earth for nine days (newscientist.com)
Seismologists were mystified by a strange signal that persisted for nine days in 2023 – now its source has been identified as a standing wave caused by a landslide in Greenland

Earthquakes, Science, Greenland, Natural Disasters

99 points by DougN7 225 days ago | 14 comments

An 'earthquake' at Volkswagen – and a crisis for Germany? (theguardian.com)

Germany, Earthquakes, Automotive Industry, Volkswagen

24 points by belter 231 days ago | 27 comments

AI predicts earthquakes with unprecedented accuracy (scitechdaily.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Earthquakes, Science

87 points by xrd 242 days ago | 60 comments

Volcano erupts in Russia after 7.0-magnitude earthquake (cnn.com)

Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Russia, Natural Disasters

10 points by yumraj 251 days ago | 3 comments

Learning from the Earthquake (1990) (longnow.org)