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

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Now I have comprehensive, current information about the Pacific Ring of Fire from seismic researchers. Let me create the ...

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

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

Dams are important. In California, they generate 15% of our energy. They also provide storage for much of our drinking and ...

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.

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

The Taliban responded with contradictory stances in the effort to rescue women and girls who were wounded and left homeless.

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