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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Seattle may have experienced its own Swift Quake last July, but at an August 2023 concert Taylor Swift's fans in Los Angeles gave scientists a lot of shaking to ponder. After some debate, a research team led by Gabrielle Tepp of Caltech concluded that it was likely the dancing and jumping motions of the audience at…

In January 2014, a meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere in the Western Pacific, as evidenced by apparent vibrational signatures of the event in a seismic station in Papua New Guinea. Last year, scientists declared rubble recovered from the ocean floor as the rejectamenta of that event (and some even speculated it was a form of alien technology). But now, another team offers a different interpretation: the vibrations were caused by a truck on a nearby road, driving by at the same time the meteor plummeted through the…

iOS 17.4 will see huge shifts for Apple's previously 'walled garden' App Store policies, but in a new letter to the European Commission, developers say it's not changing enough.Led by Spotify and Epic, the letter shared via the former's site lays out a series of "obvious and egregious" complaints with Apple's rollout of its changes.The Digital Markets Act, aimed at loosening the grip of "digital gatekeepers" like Apple or Google, has pushed Apple into allowing sideloading on iOS for the first time (jailbreaking aside),…

The epicenter of one of the strongest moonquakes recorded by the Apollo Passive Seismic Experiment was located in the lunar south polar region. However, the exact location of the epicenter could not be accurately determined. A cloud of possible locations (magenta dots and light blue polygon) of the strong shallow moonquake using a relocation algorithm specifically adapted for very sparse seismic networks are distributed near the pole. Blue boxes show locations of proposed Artemis III landing regions. Lobate thrust fault…

by KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. (a) Distribution of earthquakes with MV no less than 3.0, from the JMA catalogue, with the rectangular highlighting the study region in this editorial around the Noto Peninsula. Time period is from January 1, 1995 to the occurrence of the MW 7.5/MV7.6 earthquake on January 1, 2024. Red dots are the aftershocks above MV 3.0 from January 1, 2024, to January 15, 2024, approximately indicating…

Credit: The Seismic Record (2024). DOI: 10.1785/0320230049 Strange seismic wave arrivals from a 2010 earthquake under Spain were the clues that led to an unexpected discovery beneath the western Mediterranean: a subducted oceanic slab that has completely overturned. The waveforms paint a picture of a slab that descended rapidly into the Earth's mantle…

Back in 1997, Titanic was the biggest (and most expensive) thing happening at the movies. James Cameron’s blockbuster was half-historical disaster film, half-romance, skyrocketing its stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio to an unexpected level of fame. For the young actress who portrayed Rose, however, that “seismic” shift in her popularity was not a welcome surprise. Winslet recently got real about why being so famous at 22 years old was “horrible” and affected what jobs she accepted after.Neither Kate Winslet nor…

The structure of this review. Credit: Journal of Remote Sensing (2023). DOI: 10.34133/remotesensing.0105 The concept of geospatial data, or information related to locations on Earth's surface, has evolved. With the advent of widely available internet and smartphones, directions that were once only available on a paper map are now updated on your phone in real time to account for traffic. That evolution was, and will continue to…

The epicenter of one of the strongest moonquakes recorded by the Apollo Passive Seismic Experiment was located in the lunar south polar region. However, the exact location of the epicenter could not be accurately determined. A cloud of possible locations (magenta dots and light blue polygon) of the strong shallow moonquake using a relocation algorithm specifically adapted for very sparse seismic networks are distributed near the pole. Blue boxes show locations of proposed Artemis III landing regions. Lobate thrust fault…

(a) Map showing the locations of the two largest Nord Stream events and other events analyzed in this study. Locations of the presumed earthquakes are those published by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. Locations of the August 2019 undersea mine detonations in the Fehmarnbelt Nature Conservation Area (bounded by the red line) published by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (DNK), and relative locations estimated in this study…