November 28, 2014
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amazon, Architecture and Design, business, Business News, cities, earthquakes, Hotels, human society on the earth, human-rights, hurricanes, Japanese, Japanese firm Shimizu, medicine, mental-health, newsdiscovery, Ocean Spiral, Ocean Technology, Ocean Use, research, rising tides, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, the earth, travel, tsunamis, Underwater City, underwater eco-city, Urban Planning, vacation
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Presently, more than 70 percent of the planet is covered in water. As Earth’s temperature rises, more land will submerge. With that in mind, architects and engineers from the Japanese firm Shimizu conceived of the Ocean Spiral, an underwater eco-city designed for deep-sea living. The 15-km-long structure winds down from the ocean’s surface to the seafloor and is topped with a 500-meter sphere.
It’s a wildly innovative idea, but the designers think the project makes sense, since deep-sea cities would be less vulnerable to tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and rising tides. The spiral would “dramatically improve the sustainability of human society on the earth,” they write in their proposal.
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February 5, 2013
Mohenjo
Science
business, Chile in 1960, climate, current-events, earthquake prediction, earthquakes, earthquakes that rocked Tohoku, Environment, Future, Japan, magnitude 9, magnitude 9.0 or greater, master fault, old oceanic crust, recent earthquakes, research, Science, Science News, seismologist, Sumatra, Sumatra in 2004, superquakes, technology, tohoku japan, travel, vacation, Yahoo News
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The earthquakes that rocked Tohoku, Japan in 2011, Sumatra in 2004 and Chile in 1960 — all of magnitude 9.0 or greater — should not have happened, according to seismologist’s theories of earthquake cycles. And that might mean earthquake prediction needs an overhaul, some researchers say.
All three earthquakes struck along subduction zones, where two of Earth’s tectonic plates collide and one dives beneath the other. Earlier earthquakes had released the pent-up strain along Chile’s master fault, meaning no big quakes were coming, scientists had thought. Japan and Sumatra both sat above on old oceanic crust, thought to be too stiff for superquakes.
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http://news.yahoo.com/potential-superquakes-underestimated-recent-earthquakes-show-153606464.html
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