Plate temperature and water release can explain the occurrence of different types of earthquakes in Guerrera, Mexico. A Kobe University simulation study has also shown that the shape of the Cocos ...

The Sunda Arc represents one of the world’s most active convergent margins, formed by the subduction of the Indo-Australian Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. This complex system comprises a forearc ...

Seismologists have a term they use carefully: a "seismic gap." It refers to a section of an active fault that has gone quiet for decades or even centuries, not because the geological stress has eased, ...

This study is led by Professor Jingshui HUANG (University of Science and Technology of China), and Bing LI，Xiwei XU, Qiliang GUO and Furen XIE ( National Institute of Natural Hazards, Ministry of ...

SEISMIC contractor Petroleum Geo-Services is preparing to kick off the second in a series of land-to-sea seismic shoots in Texas, which aim to better tie in the stratigraphic and structural ...

We are underway on our 48-day long expedition offshore of the west coast of Mexico near Acapulco, where the young Cocos oceanic plate dives beneath the North American plate. Most of this subduction ...

This study is conducted by a team led by Dr. Xiong XIONG (School of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China). In a paper published in 2015 in the Geophysical Journal ...

Seismic pounding refers to the collision of neighbouring buildings during earthquake‐induced ground motions when insufficient separation exists between them. Such impacts can amplify structural damage ...

Two days after a devastating earthquake struck, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited one of the worst-affected areas and declared that it was “not possible to be prepared for such a disaster ...