A 14-year-old student from Williamsburg, Virginia, has become one of 30 finalists in a national science competition after ...

A decade-long California experiment tested earthquake forecasting models against nearly 600 earthquakes. Here's what it found ...

When a slab slides beneath an overriding plate in a subduction zone, the slab takes on a property called anisotropy, meaning its strength is not the same in all directions. Anisotropy is what causes a ...

Newswise — RICHLAND, Wash.—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 ...

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 ...

A decade-long study of earthquake activity in California has provided the strongest evidence to date that forecasting models ...

The University of Bristol–led study, published in Nature Communications, could help millions of people living in ...

A catastrophic megathrust earthquake in the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone represents one of the most severe natural hazard threats to the Pacific Rim. New scientific modeling and simulated video ...

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

USC Engineering Insights - When a major earthquake hits Los Angeles, our best traffic models will be reading a map that no longer exists. USC Viterbi professor Cyrus Shahabi is building the system ...

Tidal stresses are comparable to a slight push from a hand, but with the right timing, they can be enough to get a fault moving.