A geologic survey of the Connecticut River Valley is being conducted to map the presence of pyrrhotite, a mineral that can ...

It turns out that the familiar ground-shaking is only a small portion (10%) of the total energy released. While a tiny fraction of the quake’s energy (less than 1%) fractures rocks, up to 80% of it is ...

Surprisingly, they found that only around 10% of a quake’s energy causes the physical shaking most people associate with ...

PLAINVILLE, Conn. – Pyrrhotite, the naturally occurring mineral that ruins concrete and threatens billions in property values, is underfoot in New England. But the way to pinpoint deposits of the ...

The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can ...