When a 4.4-magnitude earthquake rattled Los Angeles on Aug.13, it didn’t come as a complete surprise to everybody. About a ...
Engineers and scientists have developed techniques for building earthquake-resistant structures over the years. While technology and materials are becoming more advanced, it is not yet feasible to ...
The public could have days or months of warning about a major earthquake through identification of prior low-level tectonic unrest over large areas, according to research by scientists who ...
However, the physical rules that describe the movement of bodies in the macroscopic world cannot be directly usedat the cellular level, so it is necessary to create new models that allow us to ...
If you need more proof that human beings wreak havoc wherever they go, you can look all the way to the moon. Caltech scientists recently published some research on how earthquake activity has ...
On March 10, 1933, a major earthquake caught the Los Angeles area by surprise. The devastation was of sufficient scale to spur scientific interest in earthquakes—and how to predict them.
Between January and April of 2024, two earthquakes measuring 7.6 and 7.2 on the Richter scale hit East Asia, causing billions of dollars of damage and resulting in hundreds of people losing their ...
The advisory came after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the southern island ... Rather, seismologists were concerned that the quake would create stress that could trigger a bomb ticking offshore ...
Their data showed the these changes had a "broader pattern than would be expected" from an earthquake of that magnitude, the scientists reported in their paper. "When the La Habra earthquake ...
In a potentially groundbreaking advancement for nutritional science, researchers in Spain have genetically engineered a new variety of lettuce boasting significantly increased levels of nutrients.