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Solar-driven temperature shifts alter rock properties and underground water movement, potentially making the Earth’s crust ...

A year after a natural disaster, the resilient artisans of Japan’s Noto Peninsula are forging ahead—with great help from the ...

Seismologists describe potential damage forecasts from ground shaking scenarios for moderate earthquakes in three regions of the Mexico City basin.

A recent swarm of small shallow earthquakes in Mexico City in 2019 and 2023 caused surprisingly strong ground shaking, ...

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Earthquakes have long been considered unpredictable, but a new study suggests that solar activity could play a role in ...

Support from the National Science Foundation helps civil engineers like Ben Schafer improve building codes and develop more ...

Traditional EEW systems rely on models that establish empirical relationships between early seismic wave characteristics and ...

Following an earthquake or other disaster, attention shifts from ensuring human safety to assessing the community's damage ...

Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data ...

Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually releases in the form of an earthquake. As ...