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If another country tested nuclear weapons, here’s how we’d know
Seismologist Thorne Lay of the University of California, Santa Cruz has been involved with nuclear monitoring research for decades. Science News spoke with Lay to clarify what we know about nuclear testing around the globe.
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California may be at high risk of ‘supershear’ earthquakes. Scientists fear we’re not ready
Past large supershear earthquakes have occurred on shearing faults that are long, straight and shallow, said Thorne Lay, a distinguished professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz. The San Andreas fits this description.
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Myanmar’s Devastating Earthquake in March Split the Earth at ‘Supershear Velocity’
A seismic station near Nay Pyi Taw registered ground motion data that were “immediately convincing of supershear rupture given the time between the weak, dilational P wave first arrival and the arrival of large shear offset of the fault” at the station, UC Santa Cruz’s Thorne Lay said in a Seismological Society of America statement.