Newswise — RICHLAND, Wash.—There’s been a seismic shift in science, with scientists developing new AI tools and applying AI to just about any question that can be asked. Researchers are now putting ...

A 14-year-old student from Williamsburg, Virginia, has become one of 30 finalists in a national science competition after ...

Earthquakes can visibly and permanently crack the ground apart in dramatic and unpredictable surface fault rupture, but new research led by University of Michigan Engineering revealed that soil ...

A deep learning framework trained on orthophotos from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake detected damaged roads and bridges ...

A catastrophic megathrust earthquake in the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone represents one of the most severe natural hazard threats to the Pacific Rim. New scientific modeling and simulated video ...

Simulated seismic intensity patterns for the 5 September 2022 Mw 6.6 Luding earthquake in southwest China, calculated from peak ground velocity in the 0.02–0.5 Hz frequency range. Although the same ...

Earthquakes usually occur along fracture zones in the Earth's crust, where large tectonic plates slide past one another and become locked. Stress builds up over long periods of time and is suddenly ...

A decade-long California experiment tested earthquake forecasting models against nearly 600 earthquakes. Here's what it found ...

Researchers say stress on Southern California’s San Andreas and San Jacinto faults has reached some of the highest levels seen in a 1,000-year simulation. Because both faults are highly stressed at ...

A rare, ultra-long earthquake in Myanmar revealed that mature faults can deliver their full force directly to the surface. The discovery could mean stronger shaking near faults like California’s San ...