Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An earthquake monitoring program in Alaska, the source of the most potentially dangerous tsunamis that could hit California, is ...

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SEATTLE — Cuts at the federal level could impact how effective earthquakes are monitored in the Pacific Northwest, a Washington state seismologist warned Friday. This week, hundreds of workers within ...

The state seismologist says the project is still several years and millions of dollars away, but the $2M appropriation is an ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The federal government shutdown is disrupting earthquake monitoring efforts by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and threatening Nevada’s push to secure funding for a potentially ...

A satellite map of the Kodiak archipelago. Last week, from Thursday onward, a handful of earthquakes rumbled throughout Kodiak Archipelago communities. According to the Alaska Earthquake Center, two ...

Shear-wave splitting Shear-wave splitting is a phenomenon where seismic shear-waves travel at different speeds depending on their polarization. Cracks and fractures inside the rock can slow down ...

Tokyo has predicted an 80 per cent chance of a magnitude-9 quake in the next 30 years, that could cause 300,000 deaths.

Many of the world’s largest and most devastating earthquakes strike beneath the ocean, where the lack of sensors makes quick warnings difficult. Most monitoring stations are on land. “If we have a big ...