After the 6.7-magnitude Northridge Earthquake rattled Southern California, scientists realized just how much preparedness can ...

The fault that ruptured in the March quake was simple and mature, which allowed the quake's energy to shoot right to the surface.

Earthquake Memorial Day , Earthquake-resilient Nepal, Strengthening community preparedness key to reducing earthquake impact ...

Earthquakes in the American state of Utah, the Soultz-sous-Forêts region of France or in the Dutch province of Groningen should not be able to occur even if the subsurface has been exploited for ...

Contributors Chris and Joe Scott are intrepid world travelers. After arriving in Tokyo, they were awakened by tremors from the 7.6 Aomori earthquake that hit Japan’s northeastern coast on Monday, ...

Preface / by A. Elena Charola and Robert J. Koestler -- 1. Back to back : the earthquake and hurricane of 2011 / G. Wayne Clough -- 2. 2011 seismic activity quakes the Smithsonian : the impact on ...

One hundred years ago, on the morning of June 29, 1925, an earthquake measuring between 6.5 and 6.8 on the Richter scale destroyed a great deal of downtown Santa Barbara and killed about a dozen ...

For more than a month, the San Francisco Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes — the latest in a series of seismic swarms that have rattled windows and raised ...

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