When a slab slides beneath an overriding plate in a subduction zone, the slab takes on a property called anisotropy, meaning its strength is not the same in all directions. Anisotropy is what causes a ...

On Jan. 1, 2024, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in Japan, resulting in extensive damage in the region caused by uplift, when the land rises due to shifting tectonic plates. The ...

One seismometer is often not enough to reliably detect earthquakes or human activity such as underground nuclear tests.

The study of earthquake remains a main interest worldwide as it is one of the least predictable natural disasters. In a new review published in the KeAi journal Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences, ...

Scientists used supercomputer simulation to reveal the underlying mechanism by which the irregular fault geometry, characterized by multisegments, controlled the variation of the fault slip and ...