Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some time now. She’s not alone: scientists estimate at ...

The underground laboratory in Nevada where the U.S. conducts nuclear subcritical experiments is riddled with faults.

Assessing how bridges and other critical infrastructure will perform during earthquakes is a central problem in earthquake engineering. That problem ...

Hoboken, N.J., December 8, 2025 — On Saturday December 6, 2025 Alaska was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude quake. Though not always so forceful, earthquakes happen every day. On average, about 55 of them ...

A grad student at UAF is helping lead an Alaska Earthquake Center project aimed at developing a new method for better locating offshore earthquakes that could be integrated into a possible future ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That’s what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her ...