By understanding what causes earthquakes, children can think critically about ways that scientists can work to prevent future damage from natural disasters. In this activity your class will build and ...

A new study by Stanford University geophysicists is raising serious questions about a fundamental technique used to make long-range earthquake predictions.

An inventive mathematician has a new idea for protecting buildings from earthquake damage: hide them. William Parnell, of the University of Manchester in England, suggests wrapping a building’s ...

In assessing the probability of an earthquake, scientists rely on two important pieces of data that are often inconsistent. The past geological record sometimes tells one story, while current ...

The son of an earthquake engineer, the 38-year old Luco earned a Ph.D. in civil engineering and now works at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) helping communities across the country upgrade their ...

To better understand how the characteristics of the affected fault lines impact earthquake dynamics, researchers in Japan used recently developed simulations to make a detailed model of the fault.

The earthquake that one would expect based on the time-predictability model has not come, however. "In fact, 15 years have gone by," Murray notes.