It turns out that the familiar ground-shaking is only a small portion (10%) of the total energy released. While a tiny ...

Surprisingly, they found that only around 10% of a quake’s energy causes the physical shaking most people associate with ...

2024 has been notable for a number a natural disasters: heat, earliest category 5 hurricane ever, and catastrophic flooding. It is a relief to report a mild earthquake year, so far. The six-month ...

The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can ...

While the state legislature passes laws on underground carbon sequestration, researchers are analyzing how lessons learned ...

When a major earthquake hits the Pacific Northwest, buildings will collapse and lives will be lost. People in old and unsafe buildings are the most likely to be hurt and killed and in the Portland ...

The Juan de Fuca Plate has been steadily pushing against the Pacific Coast as it slides beneath the North American Plate. But ...

Major structural deficiencies could turn the Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles into a deathtrap in the event of an earthquake, according to a 2006 report. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times) But a ...