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Natural Hazards

Optical fiber map
October 19, 2017

Building a ‘billion sensors’ earthquake observatory with optical fibers

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

The same optical fibers that deliver high-speed internet and HD video to our homes could one day double as seismic sensors for monitoring and studying earthquakes.

 

Natural Hazards
illustration of satellite approaching Florida
September 1, 2017

Climate change, infrastructure and the economic impacts of Hurricane Harvey

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Stanford experts comment on how climate change and infrastructure planning contribute to the severity of impacts from extreme weather events like Hurricane Harvey.

Climate Change, Natural Hazards
October 3, 2016

Are we in a "Sixth Extinction"?

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Stanford Earth professor Jon Payne puts modern extinction in context by comparing them with Earth's five previous mass extinctions.
Evolution of Earth and Life, Natural Hazards
earthquake damaged wall
September 22, 2016

Satellites help link Texas earthquakes to wastewater injection

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

The largest recorded earthquake in East Texas was triggered by the high-volume injections of wastewater from oil and gas activities deep underground. 

Energy, Natural Hazards
woman walking in snow
September 1, 2016

Extreme-weather winters are becoming more common in U.S., Stanford research shows

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

The simultaneous occurrence of warm winters in the West and cold winters in the East has significantly increased in recent decades. The damaging and costly phenomenon is very likely attributable to human-caused climate change, according to a new study.

Climate Change, Natural Hazards
trees in the Southern Sierra
August 15, 2016
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San Francisco Chronicle

Greg Asner is using aerial surveys to diagnose the health of trees in California.

Natural Hazards
Jenny Suckale on stage
May 26, 2016

TEDxStanford: High-purpose computing for natural disaster reduction

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Jenny Suckale shows us how the behavior of a melting glacier in the Antarctic doesn’t act like a melting ice cube, and why that matters.
Dynamic Earth, Natural Hazards
Mark Zoback on 60 Minutes
May 9, 2016
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60 Minutes

Mark Zoback speaks to 60 Minutes about the high incidence of earthquakes in Oklahoma, where oil and gas production is injecting vast amounts of wastewater into the earth.

Energy, Natural Hazards
USGS map of Japan quake
April 15, 2016

Stanford scientists react to quakes in Japan and Ecuador

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Geophysicists say the earthquakes are a tragic reminder that monitoring less active faults is vital for accurate hazards assessments. 

Natural Hazards
SLAC at dusk
April 4, 2016
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Stanford University

The relationship between SLAC and Stanford goes back 60 years, to a meeting where Stanford physicists helped plot construction of the linear accelerator. Since that time, collaborations between Stanford and SLAC scientists contributed to four Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry. 

Evolution of Earth and Life, Natural Hazards
Monterey map
March 31, 2016
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Stanford News Service

Through the use of mathematical models, Stanford researchers have better defined the powerful processes that carved some of the largest canyons on Earth, deep under the oceans.

Dynamic Earth, Evolution of Earth and Life, Natural Hazards, Oceans

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