Tectonics Observatory at Caltech

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	4 January 2008 LiveScience, MSNBC: Reason for earthquake season revealed New study connects seismic activity with monsoons. Hurricanes and tornadoes have seasons, but do earthquakes? They do in the Himalayas, and it's during the winter.

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14 December 2007 Caltech Today: Tracking Earth Changes with Satellite Images For the past two decades, radar images from satellites have dominated the field of geophysical monitoring for natural hazards like earthquakes, volcanoes, or landslides. These images reveal small perturbations precisely, but large changes from events like big earthquake ruptures or fast-moving glaciers remained difficult to assess from afar, until now.
	12 December 2007 Caltech Today: Earthquake Season in the Himalayan Front Scientists have long searched for what triggers earthquakes, even suggesting that tides or weather play a role. Recent research spearheaded by Jean-Philippe Avouac, professor of geology and director of the Tectonics Observatory at Caltech, shows that in the Himalayan mountains, at least, there is indeed an earthquake season. It's winter.
20 November 2007 UN Relief Web: Padang: a major Indonesian city threatened by disaster International scientists are concerned about the growing threat of an earthquake or a tsunami in the Indonesian city of Padang, which has 800,000 inhabitants.
	6 October 2007 Rakyat Benkulu Newspaper, Sumatra Indonesia: News story about the Mentawai seismic gap. this article is in Indonesian
17 September 2007 CNN Top Stories: Earthquake Hunters CNN's Hugh Riminton spends time with geologists [John Galetzka] looking for signs of the next big Pacific earthquake. Caltech's John Galetzka filmed 2 recent earthquakes. View video on CNN...>
	15 September 2007 PADANG, Indonesia: Experts warn 'big one' may yet hit Indonesia "No one can say whether it will be in 30 seconds or 30 years," he [Kerry Sieh] said. "But what happened the other day, I think is quite possibly a sequence of smaller earthquakes leading up to the bigger one."
14 September 2007 TODAY: Singapore Tremors in Singapore drive home need for emergency plans.
	14 September 2007 STRAITS TIMES: Singapore Monster Quake Could Hit Soon The earthquakes off Sumatra could portend a monster quake, and it could hit soon. Caltech's Kerry Sieh says the Mentawai patch, an area of strong resistence just southwest of Padang Sumatra, is "close to no longer being able to stand the strain" of continuing pressure buildup.
14 September 2007 LIANHE ZIAOBAO Kerry Sieh, currently on sabbtical in Singapore, talks about recent and historic large earthquakes in coastal west Sumatra. this article is in Chinese
	13 September 2007 CHANNEL NEWS ASIA: Singapore residents concerned Four aftershocks felt in Singapore following 8.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Sumatra Wednesday evening.
28 July 2007 Indonesian Town Begins Preparations for the Next Tsunami "...historical records, seismic monitoring by global positioning sensors and a careful study of growth patterns of corals converged in a remarkably precise prediction of a major earthquake and tsunami here within the next 30 years."

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