Researchers create 3-D laser maps that show how earthquake changes landscape

physorg.com — Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape down to a few inches, and it's giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. In the Feb. 10 issue of the journal Science, a team of scientists from the U.S., Mexico and China reports the most comprehensive before-and-after picture yet of an earthquake zone, using data from the magnitude 7.2 event that struck near Mexicali, northern Mexico in April, 2010. Feb 9, 2012 View in Crawl 4

Researchers create 3-D laser maps that show how earthquake changes landscape