A team of Japanese researchers hopes to drill through the Earth’s crust and reach the mantle directly. This would be a major achievement; our efforts to reach the mantle to-date have not been successful.
Entities all around the world, from cities to whole countries, have issued moratoria on fracking pending conclusive evidence of its risks. Well, some of that evidence is in: fracking causes earthquakes.
Using a delicious combination of particle accelerators, X-rays, high-intensity lasers, diamonds, and iron atoms, scientists have worked out that the inner core of the Earth is actually 6,000 degrees Celsius — some 1,000 degrees hotter than the previous scientific estimate. This new data could generate repercussions in the fields of geophysics, seismology, geodynamics, and other Earth-oriented scientific disciplines.
While many scientists have declared earthquake prediction impossible, the team at QuakeFinder has successfully identified large increases in magnetic activity days and even weeks before quakes near their sensor stations. Their next challenge is to make the detection process automatic and the predictions accurate enough to be useful.
Yesterday’s earthquake slowed down Amazon AWS — and every other hard drive on the east coast — significantly.
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