Across the United States, seismic maps and fresh quake swarms are sharpening public awareness of extreme earthquake risk. From the Pacific coast to the Mississippi River Valley, residents are living ...

Recent research indicates elevated stress levels at Cajon Pass, affecting interactions between the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults. The stress is reportedly at its highest point in the last 1,000 ...

Emergency workers attempting to rescue survivors after a recent earthquake in Kyushu, Japan, also had to cope with extreme summer heat. Extreme heat affects almost every aspect of an emergency ...

Materials scientists at the University of California San Diego have performed powerful laser shock experiments on a perovskite mineral to better understand the geophysical processes in Earth's deep ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...