Thirty years ago, seismologists worked with far less data, far slower computers, and a fundamentally simpler picture of how ...

Stress accumulating in the southern San Andreas fault. (Burkhard et. al., J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 2026) It's called California's Big One for a reason. For more than a century, tectonic pressure ...

Earthquake researchers believed for decades that rock friction within fault lines follows a simple relationship with temperature. However, a new study published by the Proceedings of the National ...