Across the approximately 35,000 sq km of the Ganga basin in Uttarakhand, an unsustainable level of human intervention has already made the region extremely vulnerable. Hydropower dams are a dangerous ...

Using nearly four decades of seismic data from stations encompassing the northern, central, and southern Sierra Nevada along California's eastern border, geologists have uncovered signs of a critical ...

Take Japan, for example: a tiny nation ... standing in for the planet’s lithosphere, or outermost layer, in this analogy, sort of float around on top of the liquid water – which, for the ...

In a dark coincidence, the researchers point to California's current catastrophe as a timely example of their recently published findings. "In that publication, fairly incredibly, we use the example ...

ctplanet provides several functions and example scripts for generating crustal thickness maps of a planet from gravity and topography data, and the calculation of hydrostatic relief along density ...