USGS Updates Seismic Hazard Maps, Ground Shaking Estimates. May 01, 2008; Last week's magnitude-5.2 earthquake in southern Illinois is a reminder that earthquakes are a national hazard, ...

Of all 50 states, 37 face the potential of damaging ground shaking from earthquakes, the latest National Seismic Hazard Model shows. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images Share this: ...

A Northwestern University research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking ...

A research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking intensities. In analyzing the ...

An updated earthquake hazard map from USGS shows a high shaking risk in California. ... have this type of ground. “These soils are like a bowl filled with Jell-O,” he said.

This assessment revealed that hazard maps for the U.S. (California), Japan, Italy, Nepal and France seemed to overpredict earthquake damage.

Forecasts of pipeline damage typically consider earthquake-induced ground failures like surface faulting, landslides, and liquefaction as separate key hazards. But a new methodology created by N ...

The U.S. Geological Survey's new seismic hazard maps, released this week, show two more earthquake faults in Western Washington: one near the Canadian border, the other east of Port Angeles.

The “ground shaking hazard maps” were generated by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), said Nancy Bantog, Cordillera director of the Department of Science and ...

Thicker sediments increase seismic hazard by intensifying ground shaking during an earthquake. Discover the latest in science, tech, and space with over 100,000 subscribers who rely on Phys.org ...