Professor Cubrinovski was five years old when a massive tremor hit his home city Skopje, in Macedonia, in 1963, causing over ...

Earthquake-induced soil liquefaction, often described as the phenomena of seismic generation of excess porewater pressures and consequent softening of granular soils, is a leading cause of earthquake ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The images out of Indonesia are frightening. Buildings and homes swept away by rivers of earth following last week's deadly earthquake. In some cases, entire neighborhoods that once ...

This research experimentally investigates how rainfall infiltration and earthquake shaking interact to trigger liquefaction and permanent ground deformation in slopes composed of granular soils. While ...

A series of small earthquakes has been shaking Summerville in recent days. Here’s how it could worsen flooding in Charleston.

Earthquakes are a wake-up call that natural hazards can rapidly transform into human-induced catastrophes when urban planning ...

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA - the U.S. Geological Survey reported that a 4.9 magnitude quake shook close to Indio Monday afternoon. A tremor rattled the area at 5:56 p.m. The earthquake's epicenter was ...

IMPERIAL COUNTY, CA - Thursday morning, a 4.1 magnitude quake was detected close to Holtville, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A tremor shook the region at 1:54 a.m. The earthquake's ...