GPS News
Tohoku quake coincided with sky 'anomalies'
Jon Cartwright
Seismologist Thomas Heaton provides commentary about the potential anomalies found in the atmosphere and the ionosphere over Japan prior to the earthquake. Scientists are determining whether or not that data could be used as early warning signals.
Evidence of Water Beneath Moon’s Stony Face
Kenneth Chang
Planetary scientist David Stevenson is quoted in this piece regarding new evidence of water accumulation beneath the Moon's surface.
Researchers Release First Large Observational Study of 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake
Katie Neith
When the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami struck off the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, they caused widespread destruction and death. Using observations from a dense regional geodetic network (allowing measurements of earth movement to be gathered from GPS satellite data), globally distributed broadband seismographic networks, and open-ocean tsunami data, researchers have begun to construct numerous models that describe how the earth moved that day.
Caltech releases new information on Japan quake
Brian Charles
A team of scientists, including some from Caltech, released a study Thursday that uses GPS modeling to provide new information on the massive Japanese earthquake that killed thousands and ravaged the island nation.
4.5-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Yields New Mineral
Jeanna Bryner
Mineralogist George Rossman, in collaboration with senior scientist Chi Ma, geologist John Beckett, and others, has determined that a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite contains a new, previously undiscovered, mineral.
