Over the past century, seismic building laws and practices have focused primarily on saving lives by reducing the likelihood of significant damage or structural collapse. However,...
IMAGE: A 3,000-year randomized clip from the California Physics-Based Seismic Simulation Catalog, created on Frontera. Show more Credit: Kevin Milner, University of Southern California Fortunately, massive...
Oregon faces the risk of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that would hit the 700-mile Cascadia subduction zone, undulating from the coast … Picture Credit!
Photo: Cascadia subduction zone map. Show more Credit: Public Domain Massive earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis that originate in subduction zones such as Cascadia – Vancouver Island,...
Were you aware that earthquakes are sometimes associated with luminescence, called earthquake lightning? This phenomenon has been documented throughout history, such as between 1965 and 1967,...
Photo: An artist showing earthquake waves under the sea. Show more Credit: California Institute of Technology Although climate change is most apparent to people as unusually...
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