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14 Apr 2016
On 13 April 2016, a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck northwest Myanmar. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the quake occurred at (23.133°N 94.900°E), approximately 396 km north northwest of...
05 Apr 2016
Parkfield, population 18, sits on the San Andreas Fault in central California. Besides a café and grazing cattle, the town hosts a dense array of seismic instruments that measure tremors...
05 Apr 2016
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) at its Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) have discovered a way to forecast earthquakes based on slow fault movements caused by moving sub...
31 Mar 2016
The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) has been inching up over the past few days. Yesterday's three-hour reading was the highest in almost five months. According to the Nationa Environment Agency...
21 Mar 2016
The Earth Observatory unveiled its new 3D Visualisation Laboratory earlier this year, with the support of the Ministry of Education and Nanyang Technological University. Among the first of its kind...
11 Mar 2016
In a paper published in Geology , a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Geological Society of America, Associate Professor Fidel Costa from the Earth Observatory of Singapore and colleagues Helena...
03 Mar 2016
Update: March 3 2016 Slip models derived by Assistant Professor Wei Shengji The source model is obtained by inversion of GSN broadband data downloaded from the IRIS DMC. We analyzed...
07 Feb 2016
In the early morning of Febuary 6, 2016, a moderate earthquake struck Tainan, southern Taiwan, right before the Chinese New Year holidays. The quake damaged several buildings in the city,...
05 Jan 2016
In the early morning hours of 4 th January 2016, a moderate Mw 6.7 earthquake struck the mountainous state of Manipur in northeastern India, close to the Indo-Myanmar border. Reports...