The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995 prompted the government to establish a nationwide network to monitor seismic activity, and this unparalleled and sophisticated observation system is making ...

Deep earthquakes remain one of the most puzzling phenomena in geophysics, and the phrase “mechanism that supercharges” them captures both the mystery and the stakes. I cannot verify any specific new ...

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Earthquake triggering arises when stress perturbations caused by one rupture alter the likelihood of failure on neighbouring faults or within volcanic and fluid‐bearing systems. Static stress transfer ...

A team from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Chile servicing a UTIG seismometer near Calama, Northern Chile, in 2024. UT graduate student Sabrina Reichert is in the background.

To get to the bottom of the brake zones, Gong and other researchers analyzed data from two major ocean-floor experiments: one ...

A period of slow, creeping movement without any shaking may be a necessary prelude to earthquakes, a new study suggests. The research, which was on the fundamentals of how materials rupture, focused ...