It’s Not Always About “The Big One”: Why We Mine for the Little Ones, Too
What’s a bit new, trendy, and even a little quirky in earthquake science? Mining through extensive earthquake data in clever, innovative ways – especially in search of the "little ones" we never feel...
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A Milestone for Forecasting Earthquake Hazards
Simulating nearly 500,000 years of California earthquakes on a supercomputer, researchers were able to match hazard estimates from the state’s leading statistical model based on a hundred years of...
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A Seismic Change in Predicting How Earthquakes Will Shake Tall Buildings
In their quest to make tall buildings safe during earthquakes, engineers have for decades relied on calculations that represent the tremors and convulsions that a building can endure. Some of the...
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"Shake, Rattle, and Code" - Super Models Find Faults
"These experiments show that the physics-based model RSQSim can replicate the seismic hazard estimates derived from the empirical model, but with far fewer statistical assumptions," noted Jordan...
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How you protect yourself when an earthquake hits might be all wrong
Your well-rehearsed earthquake response plan could be all wrong. Sure, you might know “drop, cover and hold on” by heart. But earthquake safety experts are revising their graphics for what...
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Recent Publications

Bounding the Moment Deficit Rate on Crustal Faults Using Geodetic Data: Application to Southern California Maurer, J. L., Johnson, K. M., & Segall, P.
How Physics‐Based Earthquake Simulators Might Help Improve Earthquake Forecasts Field, E. H.
Surface Creep Rate of the Southern San Andreas Fault Modulated by Stress Perturbations From Nearby Large Events Xu, X., Ward, L., Jiang, J., Smith-Konter, B. R., Tymofyeyeva, E., Lindsey, E. O., Sylvester, A. G., & Sandwell, D. T.
A case study of a precariously balanced rock, its partially exhumed corestone platform, and encasing saprock and soil Hall, C. M., Webb, H. N., Girty, G. H., Allam, A. A., & Rockwell, T. K.
A physics-based earthquake simulator replicates seismic hazard statistics across California Shaw, B. E., Milner, K. R., Field, E. H., Richards-Dinger, K., Gilchrist, J. J., Dieterich, J. H., & Jordan, T. H.

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In The News

Study suggests earthquakes are triggered well beyond fluid injection zones
Using data from field experiments and modeling of ground faults, researchers at Tufts University have...
Watch 100 Years Of Earthquakes Rock The World In This Incredible Animation
As you’ve probably noticed, I write about earthquakes a fair bit. Although I do my best to describe the scale of them...
The Hidden Seismic Symphony in Earthquake Signals
Few months go by without another devastating earthquake somewhere in the world reminding us how we all remain at the...
Scientists Identify Almost 2 Million Previously "Hidden" Earthquakes
Pouring through 10 years' worth of Southern California seismic data with the scientific equivalent of a fine-tooth comb...
NASA’s InSight lander has likely detected its first ‘marsquake,’ seismologists say
It sounds like a subway train rushing by. Or a plane flying low overhead. But it’s something much more exotic: in...

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Recent Earthquakes

Earthquakes can happen at any time! See recent earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or greater in California and Nevada: