California's earthquakes are far more likely to be "overdue" compared with earthquakes in the rest of the world.

Unlike other earthquake-prone places around the planet, California is overdue for a major quake, according to a recent study.

Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault ...

An instrument called an interrogator allows researchers to effectively hijack fiber optic cables for use as thousands of ...

The resulting sea level rise will lead to significant flood risks for huge areas of land, making recovery even harder.

1979) and the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes in the central United States (e.g., Johnston and Schweig, 1996). Frequent large earthquakes are presumed to occur by the reactivation of submarine faults ...

A British family caught up in the 5.8-magnitude earthquake that shook western Turkey and the Greek islands has said the jolts felt like “bombs landing”. At such a critical moment in US history, we ...

Point Reyes sits right on the San Andreas Fault. The Olema Valley landscape has healed, and the fault line has been ...

However, quite a few research works have proposed algorithms for transmission line fault location via synchrophasors obtained from phasor measurement units (PMUs). Processing real-field PMU data can ...