A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major ...

In lab tests involving simulated tabletop earthquakes, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico demonstrated that machine-learning technology can play a role in predicting major ...

As concluded in Lesson 4, earthquakes are associated with displacements on faults. Faults lock and a displacement occurs when the stress across the fault builds up to a sufficient level to cause ...

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For all that seismologists have learned about earthquakes, new technologies show how much remains to be discovered. In a new study in Science Advances, researchers at Columbia University show that ...

Few months go by without another devastating earthquake somewhere in the world reminding us how we all remain at the mercy of major seismic events that strike without warning. But a new branch of ...

Tens of thousands of hidden earthquakes were recently discovered beneath the Yellowstone volcano by a group of international ...

Utah State University Geosciences faculty member Srisharan Shreedharan, right, prepares for an experiment with graduate students, from left, Kwabena Poku-Agyemang and Alejandro Aguilar, using a custom ...

"At any given instant, the noise coming from the lab fault zone provides quantitative information on when the fault will slip," said Paul Johnson, a Los Alamos National Laboratory fellow and lead ...

Earthquakes take a dreadful human toll. Some 10,000 people die each year in earthquakes and their aftermath, but the toll can be much higher. Over 230,000 people died in the tsunami that followed the ...