Danish-American postdoctoral researcher Louisa Barama, with the help of fellow staff members from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Geophysical Monitoring Programs, is determining how ...

Natural disasters have a way of reminding us just how unpredictable and powerful nature can be. Some events in history sound like fictional tales from a dystopian novel, but should serve as a warning ...

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

Towering structures must be able to bend and sway when subjected to the forces of wind and ground movement, or they will ...

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

Dams have been a part of human history for a very long time, dating back to the earliest times of agrarian societies. The ...

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

A tropical storm has blown away from the northern Philippine region of Luzon, killing at least seven people after forcing over 22,000 to evacuate.

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported at 9:13 a.m. that a magnitude-4.2 earthquake rattled the Big Island and beyond about 45 minutes earlier at 8:26 a.m. Sunday morning (Oct. 19). It struck 11 miles ...

The Philippines has many natural hazards—earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, tropical cyclones, floods, ...

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