Every year, the Earth shakes thousands of times. Most of those tremors go unnoticed, felt only by sensitive instruments buried deep in the ground. Occasionally, though, one of them tears apart cities, ...

Stress on the San Andreas Fault system has reached a 1,000-year high, according to new research from the University of Hawaii. Higher stress on a fault means the pressure that causes ...

Scientists Say the 'Earthquake Gate' Between California's Most Stressed Faults Could Trigger More Dangerous Quakes ...

There's been a seismic shift in science, with scientists developing new AI tools and applying AI to just about any question that can be asked. Researchers are now putting actual seismic waves to work, ...

On Jan. 1, 2024, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in Japan, resulting in extensive damage in the region caused by uplift, when the land rises due to shifting tectonic plates. The ...

By modeling dehydration-driven fluid pressure, a new study links deep fluids to where megathrust earthquakes end and slow slip begins.

Seismology is witnessing rapid growth in both the volume and variety of earthquake observational data, but current tools for effectively integrating these heterogeneous data remain limited. Here, we ...

A new study suggests Southern California's major fault system is more stressed than at any point in the last 1,000 years.

Earthquakes can visibly and permanently crack the ground apart in dramatic and unpredictable surface fault rupture, but new research led by University of Michigan Engineering revealed that soil ...

Earthquakes usually occur along fracture zones in the Earth's crust, where large tectonic plates slide past one another and become locked. Stress builds up over long periods of time and is suddenly ...

Dynamic rupture directivity significantly impacts earthquake hazard and loss assessments; yet, it is often overlooked, leading to uncertainties. We developed high-resolution, broadband, deterministic ...

Scientists used supercomputer simulation to reveal the underlying mechanism by which the irregular fault geometry, characterized by multisegments, controlled the variation of the fault slip and ...