N​early 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake, according to a recently updated USGS map.
A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure ...
The Parker Butte earthquake, as it has been renamed, occurred about 7 kilometers deep along the Wabuska Lineament between ...
Jan. 26, 2025, marks 325 years since the last great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone. It’s a time to reflect on ...
As the winter sun set on Feb. 3, 2023, the Caribou, Maine branch of the National Weather Service was flooded with reports of seismic activity.
The ongoing project to restore Anderson Dam to functionality has been delayed by almost a year, extending the project’s ...
The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the ...
A re-examination of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake disproved earlier claims of a record-breaking deep aftershock in the ...
Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The analysis of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence challenges the claim of a record-breaking 751-kilometer-deep aftershock in the lower mantle. Instead ...
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Seemingly sudden earthquakes may be preceded by a slow creep. Could this be the key to earthquake prediction?Scientists have discovered a subtle, slow-moving creep in lab experiments that could hold the key to predicting catastrophic earthquakes before they strike.
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