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Researchers monitoring the area around North Korea's underground nuclear testing site have logged 1,399 local earthquakes since the country began detonating nuclear devices there. Scientists say this rate of seismic activity is unprecedented for the region compared to historical records.
A recent earthquake on Norway's Jan Mayen Island triggered a rock slide, an event researchers point to as evidence that Arctic terrain is becoming more unstable. Scientists link the growing frequency and severity of such incidents to climate change, which is altering the physical conditions of the region's landscape.
Experts assessing U.S. West Coast earthquake readiness say that despite decades of warnings about a potential massive quake, significant gaps remain in infrastructure, building codes, and emergency response systems. Their evaluation points to aging structures, inconsistent retrofitting, and insufficient public preparedness as key vulnerabilities that would be exposed when a major seismic event eventually strikes.
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences used a machine learning algorithm to sift through seismic data from over two million earthquakes recorded between 1990 and 2024, uncovering nearly 175,000 so-called PKP precursor signals. These faint seismic echoes, arriving before the main earthquake waves, point to small irregular structures located roughly 1,800 miles underground near the boundary between Earth's solid mantle and liquid outer core.