Most people picture earthquakes as a West Coast problem. California shakes regularly, the news covers it, and residents there have grown accustomed to a certain background level of geological anxiety.
Seismological research is directly related to the incubation, occurrence, and evolution of earthquakes. Scientists seek to reveal potential earthquake precursors by monitoring the stress state of ...
At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie ...
"Subtle, immature faults may pose a greater seismic hazard than the prominent, large faults that we traditionally focus on." ...
Rodgers Creek Fault, the silent seismic threat beneath Santa Rosa, now carries the Bay Area's highest 30-year earthquake probability at 34.3% per new USGS calculations. The fault has not ruptured in ...