Researchers are deliberately setting off real (small) earthquakes to understand how to gauge the danger of a fault line ...

The live test showcased the capabilities of the College of Engineering's Civil Engineering Research and Education Center, where researchers subject full-scale structural components to extreme ...

For years, textbooks taught that shallow faults—cracks in the Earth’s upper crust—were too stable to cause earthquakes. Once ...

First quakes are the most dangerous: Once a healed fault ruptures for the first time, it cannot generate another major ...