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Stanley earthquake swarm brings more than 100 quakes, and it's not over
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Central Mountains had numerous earthquakes occur Friday, all in connection to the ongoing earthquake swarm in the area. Several of Friday’s quakes registered above magnitude 3, ...
Lighting a new way to predict earthquakes: Laboratory model links fault contact area to earthquake occurrences
Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault ...
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Idaho’s Sawtooth Fault Awakens: What a Recent Earthquake Swarm Reveals About a ‘Sleeping Giant’ and the Science of Seismic Risk
The rocks themselves are telling us this is an important process,” Stanford geophysicist Eric Dunham said in a 2020 interview ...
Hike to ruptured Bay Area fence shows how 1906 earthquake devastated Point Reyes
Point Reyes sits right on the San Andreas Fault. The Olema Valley landscape has healed, and the fault line has been ...