A recent paper in Review of Geophysics built a unifying model to predict the surface characteristics of large earthquakes.
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Scientists Create Catalog of Altotiberina Fault in Italy
More than 37,000 small earthquakes paint a picture of the fault’s behavior and seismic potential.
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The Curious Case of the Ultradeep 2015 Ogasawara Earthquake
Unusual ground motion associated with the deepest major earthquake in the seismological record is due to both its great depth and its origin away from the subducting slab.
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Mystery Quakes May Be Among World’s Longest-Lived Aftershocks
New evidence about where a major earthquake struck central Washington State 145 years ago raises the possibility that today’s unusually frequent quakes in the area still echo that 1872 event.
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What Precursors Foretold Greenland’s Recent 100-Meter Tsunami?
Slippage began hours before a landslide-driven tsunami destroyed a village in northwestern Greenland.
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Seafloor Activity Sheds Light on Plate Tectonics
Scientists in Japan study stress released by oceanic earthquakes in newborn sections of seafloor.
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How to Trigger a Massive Earthquake
Humans may be to blame for California’s second-largest 20th century earthquake, and a team of seismologists has now proposed how that could have happened.
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Imaging the Underlying Mechanics of New Zealand Earthquakes
Researchers create a first-of-its-kind image to map electrical properties of rocks and minerals throughout the Hikurangi subduction zone.
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Revising an Innovative Way to Study Cascadia Megaquakes
Researchers probe natural environments near subduction zones to decrypt underlying mechanisms of major earthquakes.
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A Closer Look at an Undersea Source of Alaskan Earthquakes
A systematic survey offers a striking portrait of movement along a 500-kilometer-long undersea section of the Queen Charlotte–Fairweather fault off the coast of southeastern Alaska.