On Jan. 1, 2024, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in Japan, resulting in extensive damage in the region caused by uplift, when the land rises due to shifting tectonic plates. The ...

Every year, the Earth shakes thousands of times. Most of those tremors go unnoticed, felt only by sensitive instruments buried deep in the ground. Occasionally, though, one of them tears apart cities, ...

Simulated seismic intensity patterns for the 5 September 2022 Mw 6.6 Luding earthquake in southwest China, calculated from peak ground velocity in the 0.02–0.5 Hz frequency range. Although the same ...

When tectonic plates move, they rarely do so smoothly. Sometimes they slide almost imperceptibly; at other times, stress is ...

Catastrophe risk software provider KatRisk has acquired RED, a specialist provider of catastrophe models, including ...

Seismicity decreases with depth because elevated confining pressure prevents frictional sliding of faults. However, ...

Scientists used supercomputer simulation to reveal the underlying mechanism by which the irregular fault geometry, characterized by multisegments, controlled the variation of the fault slip and ...