These quakes, also known as slow slip earthquakes or just slow earthquakes, are typically too gentle to cause immediate danger. However, they can help scientists predict full-speed earthquakes or ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Researchers at UC San Diego simulated a 6.9 earthquake to see if this 10-story building would hold its integrity.

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar.

The earthquake was recorded at 10:08 a.m. with an epicenter just 2.49 miles south of the equestrian town of Julian, in San Diego County according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Californians have long dreaded the 'Big One'. But growing fears of a deadly earthquake are no longer confined to just the Golden State. Here experts reveal the worst 'time bomb' zones in the US ...

We map the coseismic deformation of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake with data from three descending Envisat/ASAR tracks and six ascending ALOS/PALSAR tracks that cover most of northeastern Japan. Due ...

Caltech researchers have introduced a new seismic technology called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS). Using DAS, the method probes the Moho by analyzing reflected seismic waves.

Caltech’s new tech can peer deep inside tectonic secrets to smell earthquakes Researchers can detect even the slightest vibrations in the ground by sending pulses of light down the cable ...

When Zachary Ross, an assistant geophysics professor at Caltech, started in the field in the early 2010s, he sought a new way forward. Traditional methods of quake-hunting science “just sucked ...

Between 1964 and 1994, Los Angeles faced two big earthquakes, which both hit the suburban San Fernando Valley hard: the magnitude 6.6 Sylmar earthquake of 1971, which resulted in 64 deaths; and ...