Haiti’s tragedy is almost certain to be surpassed sometime this century when a major quake hits Karachi, Pakistan, Katmandu, Nepal, Lima, Peru, or one of a long list of big poor cities facing ...

ONC’s system has 35 seismic sensors on Vancouver Island and eight seafloor senors. It is one of the few in the world with land and sea earthquake detection.

Samoa—part of the Global Seismographic Network—to measure and identify the source of the American Samoa earthquake swarm. Without a local seismic monitoring network, they relied on a single seismic ...

With this new earthquake catalog for the event, the researchers were able to characterize the onset and the peak of the swarm activity. Portable and inexpensive Raspberry Shake sensors deployed in ...

Android's got a built-in feature that crowdsources device sensor data to provide early warning to users about earthquakes. Today, following an apparent malfunction of that system, Google's ...

Earthquake sensors hinted at the potential for destruction and death. But tsunami experts watching that data did not know who to tell. Their system showed no threats to coastal communities on either ...