A research group explores how the makeup of rocks, specifically their permeability -- or how easily fluids can flow through them -- affects the frequency and intensity of slow slip events. Slow slips' ...
Impacts of the 2018 earthquake near Wasilla. Earthquakes had a quieter year in 2022. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey) A new report released by the Alaska Earthquake Center shows a quiet year ...
Researchers from a renowned U.S. university captured a slow slip earthquake in motion. It was captured during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at the bottom of the ocean. A ...
Sensors and observation instruments being lowered into a borehole off the coast of Japan nearly 1,500 feet below the seafloor during an International Ocean Discovery Program mission in 2016. Sensors ...
From the local vista point known as Twin Peaks, Mary Lou Zoback, a senior scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), looks out on a breathtaking view of San Francisco–the gilded dome of City ...
The earthquake that devastated large areas of southern Turkey and northern Syria may have been building for thousands of years. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the region at 4.17 a.m. local time on ...
It’s been nearly two months since the largest earthquake of the past 14 years ripped 450 miles of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench in the northwestern Pacific. It caused strong shaking in Kamchatka and ...
Jackson School Associate Professor Nicola Tisato and Research Professor Harm Van Avendonk stop for a selfie in New Zealand in 2022. Earthquakes are the most dramatic and noteworthy results of tectonic ...
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