When an earthquake rupturing along a fault hits a barrier, it creates a seismic signature called the “stopping phase.” ...

Duke faculty and students are working with colleagues in Nepal to give the country more warning before deadly earthquakes ...

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Seismicity decreases with depth because elevated confining pressure prevents frictional sliding of faults. However, ...

As earthquakes increase in East Texas and Louisiana, scientists are investigating whether oil and gas operations in the Haynesville shale formation are to blame.

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A new study in Civil Engineering Sciences reports a magnitude-based incremental dynamic analysis method, or MIDA, for evaluating structures exposed to near-fault earthquakes. Using a cable-stayed ...

While Orange Unified is Santiago Canyon College’s primary Community Science Night partner, students and their families from ...

Students in Integrated Science at FHS put their engineering skills to the test by designing and building earthquake-proof ...

Exactly 120 years after the 1906 earthquake, San Francisco faces ongoing seismic risk and experts warn the city is still not ...

Nearly 1,000 feet beneath the desert of southern Nevada, a sprawling underground laboratory helps certify every warhead in ...

This article has all the main news stories for school assemblies on April 20, 2026. It includes news from India, ...