Daily Archives: Dec 13, 2025
Supershear Rupture Exposed: How CCTV Footage Redefined Earthquake Science
Is it possible for a single security camera to rewrite decades of earthquake science? On March 28, 2025, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake along Myanmar’s Sagaing Fault not only devastated cities but also delivered a seismic breakthrough: the first-ever direct video capture of a strike-slip fault in motion. This rare...
Why TRACERS’ Twin Satellites Could Transform Our Understanding of Space Weather
A tractor in Iowa will deviate by twelve feet or more in the course of a solar storm, not for mechanical reasons, but as a result of the unseen ballet of magnetic fields on the Sun and Earth. The launch of the University of Iowa-led TRACERS mission by NASA...
The Hidden Second: How Earth’s Accelerating Spin Threatens Global Timekeeping
A theoretical problem that once had a practical issue on its doorstep now has the following worry: what if the Earth rotates so quickly that a second needs to be dropped from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)? As Scripps Institution of Oceanography geophysicist Duncan Agnew explains, "There's never been a...
