{"667374":{"#nid":"667374","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Studying the nature of the earth \u2014 under earthquakes","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn February, the countries of Turkey and Syria were devastated by a pair of high-magnitude earthquakes occurring nine hours apart. The two events, 7.8- and 7.5-magnitudes respectively, caused thousands of deaths and widespread destruction of infrastructure. Both occurred along the East Anatolian fault, one of Turkey\u2019s two main earthquake zones. A team of scientists from Georgia Tech, the University of Missouri, and the Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey (TUBITAK) are working to better understand the makeup of the earthquake zone and surrounding areas to help scientists better explain why February\u2019s earthquakes were unusually intense. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, will join colleagues in placing 250 autonomous, wireless sensors near the fault.\u0026nbsp;(This story was also covered in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.columbiatribune.com\/story\/news\/2023\/04\/17\/mu-professor-grad-student-headed-to-turkey-earthquake-zone-for-nsf\/70121490007\/\u0022\u003EColumbia Daily Tribune\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn February, the countries of Turkey and Syria were devastated by a pair of high-magnitude earthquakes occurring nine hours apart. The two events, 7.8- and 7.5-magnitudes respectively, caused thousands of deaths and widespread destruction of infrastructure. Both occurred along the East Anatolian fault, one of Turkey\u2019s two main earthquake zones. A team of scientists from Georgia Tech, the University of Missouri, and the Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey (TUBITAK) are working to better understand the makeup of the earthquake zone and surrounding areas to help scientists better explain why February\u2019s earthquakes were unusually intense. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, will join colleagues in placing 250 autonomous, wireless sensors near the fault. (This story was also covered in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.columbiatribune.com\/story\/news\/2023\/04\/17\/mu-professor-grad-student-headed-to-turkey-earthquake-zone-for-nsf\/70121490007\/\u0022\u003EColumbia Daily Tribune\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-04-17 14:10:08","changed_gmt":"2023-04-24 14:30:17","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"University of Missouri ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2023\/studying-the-nature-of-the-earth-under-earthquakes\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-04-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-04-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"12122","name":"Zhigang Peng"},{"id":"12120","name":"earthquakes"},{"id":"192532","name":"East Anatolian Fault"},{"id":"192079","name":"Turkey earthquakes"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}