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Most dangerous part of this U.S. earthquake fault identified as "one of Earth's biggest hazards"
Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...
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Idaho’s Sawtooth Fault Awakens: What a Recent Earthquake Swarm Reveals About a ‘Sleeping Giant’ and the Science of Seismic Risk
The rocks themselves are telling us this is an important process,” Stanford geophysicist Eric Dunham said in a 2020 interview ...
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Utah’s next earthquake could hit harder, U of U research suggests
As Utah’s “geological clock” continues to tick closer and closer to its next big earthquake, researchers at the University of ...
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Properties of rock at the Wasatch Fault may contribute to earthquake risk
A recent study from Utah State University geoscientists explores the characteristics of rocks from a fault zone in Utah.
A mega tsunami could strike the US with little warning: Understanding Cascadia, the danger zones, and how to get ready
The Cascadia Subduction Zone, dormant for over 300 years, poses a significant threat to the Pacific Northwest. A future ...
Lighting a new way to predict earthquakes: Laboratory model links fault contact area to earthquake occurrences
Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault ...
The next big earthquake: When is the Bay Area due?
California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.
‘Unusual flurry’ of earthquakes shakes near Idaho mountain town
More than a dozen earthquakes have rattled the area in less than 48 hours, including some as strong as magnitude 3.2.
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4.1-magnitude earthquake shakes East Tennessee and Knoxville
An earthquake near Greenback, Tennessee, shook East Tennessee early Saturday morning. It was the largest quake in the region ...