Hacker News with Generative AI: Earthquakes

BBC Verify: What satellite images reveal about Myanmar's quake (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, Verification, News

7 points by diwank 2 days ago | 0 comments

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

Japan, Earthquakes, Natural Disasters, Prediction, Safety

8 points by marban 2 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

42 points by rbanffy 3 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 4 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 5 days ago | 0 comments

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

7 points by sizzle 6 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 6 days ago | 108 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 6 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 19 days ago | 2 comments

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

Earthquakes, Natural Disasters, Caribbean

8 points by pseudolus 53 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 57 days ago | 0 comments

Santorini island hit by 200 earthquakes (cnn.com)

Earthquakes, Greece, Santorini

4 points by whatever1 59 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 62 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 71 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 72 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 118 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 155 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 160 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 201 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 202 days ago | 14 comments

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

Germany, Earthquakes, Automotive Industry, Volkswagen

24 points by belter 208 days ago | 27 comments

AI predicts earthquakes with unprecedented accuracy (scitechdaily.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Earthquakes, Science

87 points by xrd 219 days ago | 60 comments

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

Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Russia, Natural Disasters

10 points by yumraj 228 days ago | 3 comments

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