Western University’s Abouzar Sadrekarimi doesn’t want you to feel the Earth move beneath your feet so he’s leading research that helps strengthen it. By adding urea and calcium to the soil, Sadrekarimi and his team at Western Engineering have created a bio-cement that...
earthquakes
International collaboration develops model for forecasting ‘largest expected’ earthquakes
An international research team led by Western University has developed a new methodology for forecasting the magnitude of the largest possible earthquake within a series of seismic events like the deadly ones that shook Kumamoto, Japan in 2016. The Kumamoto...
Rate of earthquakes depends on volume of fluids in hydraulic fracturing operations – but the magnitude of the largest possible events does not
New findings published by the high impact journal Science show that the rate in which earthquakes are triggered or induced by fracking depends on the volume of the hydraulic fracturing operations. But the magnitude of the triggered events is not capped - contrary to a...