Earthquakes

Android phones around San Francisco’s Bay Area buzzed with an alert on Tuesday morning: a 4.8 magnitude earthquake was about to hit. “You may have felt shaking,” some of the messages read.…

On July 16, 2020, Google Global Networking said they believed all the international submarine fiber optics could be used to create earthquake and tsunami warning systems that…

Seismic waves from a big quake are easy to see—think of the classic image of a seismograph, pencil scratching out telltale waves on a rotating paper as the tremor arrives. Even to highly…

When a magnitude-7.0 earthquake hit Haiti in 2010 and killed an estimated 200,000 people, there was only one working seismometer in the country. The shaking quickly overwhelmed the…

Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 1 is nearing its end, and loopers eagerly await the 19.40 patch. The updates have been loaded with content lately, and accordingly, the expectations from this…

When I leave Los Angeles, if I ever leave Los Angeles, it will not be because of the traffic, the earthquakes, the absence of anything approaching a really good crab cake or even the local…

Civil engineers at Rice University and Texas A&M have developed a computational modeling strategy to plan repairs…

San Jose Earthquakes are back in action with another important MLS fixture this weekend as they take on Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday. Both teams have not been at their best this season…

And trees don’t forget. In the 1990s, researchers identified a “ghost forest” of dead cedars near the Washington coast; tree-ring dating confirmed that they’d indeed died in 1700. But Black…

A parapet is the decorative extension at the top of a wall, often found on top of buildings. Credit: Shutterstock…