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News Briefs - February 2018

News Briefs - February 2018

Coastal and marine news highlights from across the USGS.

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New Study Links Salinity Changes in the Gulf of Mexico to Changes in Rainfall Patterns in the Western Hemisphere

New Study Links Salinity Changes in the Gulf of Mexico to Changes in Rainfall Patterns in the Western Hemisphere

The project is part of a collaborative effort to better understand how sea surface temperature and salinity have varied over the Holocene, or the past...

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Giant Grooves Discovered on an Earthquake Fault Offshore Costa Rica

Giant Grooves Discovered on an Earthquake Fault Offshore Costa Rica

Researchers report finding corrugations, or giant grooves, kilometers long, hundreds of meters wide, and tens of meters high, between the Cocos and...

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A Tale of Two Tsunamis—Why Weren’t They Bigger? Mexico 2017 and Alaska 2018

A Tale of Two Tsunamis—Why Weren’t They Bigger? Mexico 2017 and Alaska 2018

Why do some earthquakes trigger large tsunamis, and others don’t? Learn how earthquakes produce tsunamis, how scientists predict tsunami size and...

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Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - February 2018

Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - February 2018

In January and February 2018, USGS scientists visited more than 15 coastal and offshore locations studying mineral crusts, a subduction zone trench...

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The USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Data Catalog

The USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Data Catalog

The USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Data Catalog makes research data easier to find by offering a preselected collection of metadata (“data about data...

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USGS in South Korea

USGS in South Korea

 For several years, KIGAM, the Korean Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, has hosted an international program for geoscience resources (IS...

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Researchers from USGS attended the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Researchers from USGS attended the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Scientists from St. Petersburg presented a broad array of research subjects.

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Newspaper story on earthquake hazards in Santa Rosa, California, features information from USGS scientists

Newspaper story on earthquake hazards in Santa Rosa, California, features information from USGS scientists

USGS scientists Janet Watt and Suzanne Hecker provided information to the article’s author.

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Pacific Missile Tracking Site Could Be Unusable in 20 Years Due to Climate Change

Pacific Missile Tracking Site Could Be Unusable in 20 Years Due to Climate Change

Living and working on the Pacific islands hosting a key missile tracking site soon could be almost impossible due to the impacts of climate change.

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USGS fields tsunami questions after earthquake off Kodiak, Alaska

USGS fields tsunami questions after earthquake off Kodiak, Alaska

USGS geophysicist Eric Geist fielded questions about tsunamis after a magnitude 7.9 earthquake off southern Alaska prompted a tsunami watch for the U...

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