Surprisingly, they found that only around 10% of a quake’s energy causes the physical shaking most people associate with ...

A team of AI scientists and seismologists has developed a pioneering self-supervised framework, DASFormer, for high-resolution earthquake monitoring. Built on a two-stage, coarse-to-fine architecture, ...

Tokyo, one of the world's most densely populated megacities, sits on a highly active seismic zone where the threat of major ...

Up to 98 percent of the energy of an earthquake goes into flash heating rocks, not shaking the ground, new research shows. The finding could help yield better earthquake forecasts ...

As catastrophic as the 2011 northern Japan quake and tsunami was—killing more than 15,000 people and causing more than $200 billion in economic damages—in a way, the country was lucky. Tokyo, a city ...

In July 2024, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Calama, Chile, damaging buildings and causing power outages. The country has ...