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Etna Volcano Eruption 12 January 2011

Scientists 'see' puzzling features deep in Earth’s interior

19 May 2022

New research led by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge is the first to obtain a detailed 'image' of an unusual pocket of rock at the boundary layer with...

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Alaska’s Pavlof Volcano: NASA’s View from Space

Earth's interior is swallowing up more carbon than thought

26 Jul 2021

Scientists from Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ and NTU Singapore have found that slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates drag more carbon into Earth’s...

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Topography of Hindu Kush.

Earthquake rocks Afghanistan and Pakistan – an area prone to magnitude 7 quakes

27 Oct 2015

Professor Simon Redfern (Department of Earth Sciences) discusses the devastating earthquake that struck Afghanistan on October 26 and the geological...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥city of Muzafarabad, Pakistan lays in ruins after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake that hit the region.

Earthquakes without frontiers

26 Oct 2015

̽»¨Ö±²¥Alpine–Himalayan belt, which stretches from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, is one of the world’s most seismically active regions. Now, a...

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