Retreating Glaciers Sur Alaskan Earthquakes

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Retreating Glaciers Spur Alaskan Earthquakes

The study examined the likelihood of increased earthquake activity in southern Alaska as a result of rapidly melting glaciers. As glaciers melt they lighten the load on the Earth's crust. Tectonic plates, that are mobile pieces of the Earth's crust, can then move more freely.

A medium view of the Bering Glacier, September 2002.

Metadata

  • Sensor

  • Animation ID

    2968

  • Video ID

    NONE

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Stuart A. Snodgrass, Marte Newcombe

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2004/07/30

  • Scientist

    Jeanne Sauber (NASA/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    Blue Marble

  • Keywords

    Glaciers, Glacier, Bering Glacier, Alaska, Earthquakes, Earthquake

  • Data Date

    1993/01/18, 2001/11/16

  • Pao ID

    G04-042

  • Story URL

    http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2004/0715glacierquakes.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular