For shallow earthquakes (earthquakes with a focus near the surface of the Earth), the surface waves may be the largest waves recorded by the seismograph. Often they are the only waves recorded a long ...

Materials scientists can now use insight from a very common mineral and well-established earthquake and avalanche statistics to quantify how hostile environmental interactions may impact the ...

California is preparing for the annual ShakeOut earthquake drill, emphasizing the importance of preparedness. It’s not your imagination: The ground beneath Southern California has been ...

Some earthquakes are imperceptibly quiet ... Photograph by Spencer Lowell This work, historically, has been painstaking, often slow, and sometimes imprecise. When Zachary Ross, an assistant ...

Sichuan Province Earthquake Offers Lessons for Landslide Prediction from GNSS Observations Aug. 7, 2024 — Using data collected from a 2022 magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Luding County in China's ...

Similar quakes in the region in the future, a seismologist warned, "could maybe focus energy toward population centers." ...

However, long-period quakes, like what led up to Mount St. Helens, are often a sign of something bigger looming. When we talk about earthquakes, you will often hear the term epicenter. That is the ...

Eight earthquakes rattled the Upstate this weekend, each occurring in Greenwood County. They also happened to occur during South Carolina's "Earthquake Preparedness Awareness Week", which runs ...

But the drill will help ensure that participants are prepared for the next big earthquake the state faces. Coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the destructive Loma Prieta earthquake ...

However, long-period quakes, like what led up to Mount St. Helens, are often a sign of something bigger looming. When we talk about earthquakes, you will often hear the term epicenter. That is the ...