Human activity can cause “healed” faults to release their stored strength, triggering unexpected quakes in tectonically stable regions.
A powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake has shaken southcentral Alaska, jolting residents around Anchorage and rippling across ...
Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course of days or weeks rather than minutes – and scientists have now recorded some ...
Beneath Yellowstone Lake, roughly 300 feet underground, a swarm of more than 2,000 small earthquakes in 2021 triggered a ...
Up to now, there was no way of predicting whether a powerful earthquake was likely to be followed by one of even greater magnitude. But the results of a study recently published in Nature by Laura ...
Earthquake forecasting tools powered by AI can forecast the risk of aftershocks seconds after the initial tremor, a new study ...
A team of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin (UT), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Scripps ...