This week's magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the Philippines came with scenes familiar to New Zealanders: collapsed buildings, shattered facades and streets strewn with rubble.

If and when the next big earthquake strikes the Bay Area, thousands of older, soft story homes in San Jose face the risk of catastrophic damage. The city passed legislation nearly 18 months ago ...

Zig-zagging around the glass-and-steel perimeter of the UC Berkeley Grimes Engineering Center, 36 thin metal rods could be what it takes to prevent the building’s total destruction. The rods are the ...

The mega-earthquake. It’s coming. We don’t know exactly when or how big it’s going to be, but it’s coming. It will be chaotic ...

Predicting large earthquakes remains a significant challenge due to the complexity of fault systems and the variability of preparatory processes. We introduce an unsupervised machine learning ...

Part 2 of a series. Go here to read Part 1. Go here to read Part 3. It could strike without warning — even in an age of advanced alerting systems. A sudden jolt would be followed in some places by ...