Some 230 million people in the United States face the potential of damaging earthquakes in 100 years, according to the latest U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model, or NSHM. That’s about 40 million ...

“Hazard maps for California as well as Japan, Italy, Nepal and France all seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking intensities. The hazard maps were made by groups in ...

“And in the case of these maps, we have increased the hazard in many areas because ... The color-coded map shows a range of earthquake probability across the U.S. Well known high-risk areas ...

A new earthquake fault mapping study provides compelling evidence of seismic hazards in Turkey and Syria following the 2023 earthquakes. Researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill, USGS, and global teams ...

A moderately strong, 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Iran on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The ...

Phivolcs Director Teresito Bacolcol said the turnover was made through the agency's Accelerated Earthquake Multi-Hazards Mapping and Risk Assessment-Deterministic Liquefaction and Tsunami Hazard ...