For more than 30 years, the models that researchers and government agencies use to forecast earthquake aftershocks have remained largely unchanged. While these older models work well with limited data ...
Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study ...
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 ...
Researchers are applying artificial intelligence and other techniques in the quest to forecast quakes in time to help people find safety. In September 2017, about two minutes before a magnitude 8.2 ...
(A) Coseismic landslide inventories within the Alpine-Himalayan and Circum-Pacific belts. (B) The enlarged view of highlighted 38 earthquakes. The five Köppen-Geiger climate zones are here simplified ...