Global distribution of natural and induced seismicity. Natural earthquakes with moment magnitude higher than 5 are ...

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There isn’t zero probability of earthquakes in the Rochester area, but it is much lower than in regions of the state with ...

For years, textbooks taught that shallow faults—cracks in the Earth’s upper crust—were too stable to cause earthquakes. Once ...

First quakes are the most dangerous: Once a healed fault ruptures for the first time, it cannot generate another major ...

In December 1989, the United Nations declared Oct. 13 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the time, the aim was ...

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