Research
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- 55-Story Tall Building Before and After Earthquake Retrofit — Science for Everyone article (USGS)
- A Possible Cause of Earthquakes in the Continental Interior — Plain-language summary of a 2018 research paper. (USGS)
- Back to the Future on the San Andreas Fault — What does the science say? Where does the information come from? And what does it mean? Investigating past earthquakes to inform the future. (USGS)
- Collection of 3D Geometries for Global Subduction Zones — A plain language article about subduction zone models and how they help us understand large earthquakes. (USGS)
- Geologic Cracks Record Earthquakes on the Reelfoot Fault in Central U.S. — New high-resolution lidar data reveals cracks produced from strong shaking in past earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone. (USGS)
- Ground-Truthing After the M4.0 Earthquake in Southern Maine, October 16, 2012 — Old-fashioned interviews are compared to Did You Feel It? responses for this earthquake. (USGS)
- How Big and How Frequent Are Earthquakes on the Wasatch Fault? — Paleoseismology along the Wasatch Fault in Utah is helping to estimate the shaking risk to nearby towns. (USGS)
- Improving Earthquake Monitoring with Deep Learning — A Science for Everyone article: Can a deep-learning approach perform better than NEIC?s traditional methods to get more accurate earthquake locations and magnitudes? The NEIC monitoring system is a perfect candidate for deep learning because it processes large amounts of data. (USGS)
- Intermountain West, U.S., 2020 Earthquakes — An interactive geonarrative (Esri story map) about the four Intermountain West earthquakes. Learn more about these quakes and the historic earthquakes in this part of the western U.S. This immersive experience (best viewed on a computer) includes maps, photos from the field and links to journal papers, earthquake event pages, data and more. (USGS)
- M7.8 Nepal Earthquake, 2015 - A Small Push to Mt. Everest — A large shallow earthquake moves Mt. Everest 3 cm southwest. (USGS)
- Seismology in the City — How seismologists can use noise to see under the ground. (USGS)
- The "Snow Plow Theory" of Early-Arriving Tsunamis — What is a splay fault, and how can they affect tsunamis? (USGS)
- The 2023 National Seismic Hazard Model ? What's Shaking? — A Science for Everyone article: No one can predict earthquakes. But existing faults and past earthquakes give us information about future earthquakes, and geology tells us how the ground shakes during an earthquake. (USGS)
- Using Distant Seismometers to Monitor and Analyze Volcanic Eruptions — Science for Everyone article (USGS)
- Washington DC Stone and Brick Buildings Vulnerable to Distant Quakes — Science for Everyone article (USGS)