In a darkened room in Pavia, Italy, a jumble of stubby arrows spreads out across a large screen like a swarm of ants on the march. To Ross Stein, the marks on this map of the Balkans reveal where ...

Seismology is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth, while seismic exploration utilises controlled sources to image the subsurface. Collectively, ...

Researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using ...

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Aotearoa New Zealand experiences frequent earthquakes, including destructive ones such as those that struck Christchurch in 2010 and 2011, and near Kaikōura in 2018. In the South Island, the largest ...

A network of simple seismic stations, hosted in volunteers’ homes, helped to rapidly evaluate and characterize the Mw7.2 Nippes earthquake in Haiti in 2021, as well as its subsequent aftershocks. The ...

The Seismological Society of America (SSA) will present its highest honor, the 2017 Harry Fielding Reid Medal, to U.S. Geological Survey emeritus geologist George Plafker, for his transformative work ...

To predict when earthquakes are likely to occur, seismologists often use statistics to monitor how clusters of seismic activity evolve over time. However, this approach often fails to anticipate the ...

Geophysics is the application of the methods and techniques of physics in the study of the Earth. It differs from Geology in that a geologist studies rocks and structures, which can be seen, while a ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On July 25, 1946 the United States detonated ...

Meghan S. Miller receives funding from the Australian Research Council and from AuScope which is part of the Australian National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). John Townend ...