As concluded in Lesson 4, earthquakes are associated with displacements on faults. Faults lock and a displacement occurs when the stress across the fault builds up to a sufficient level to cause ...

The earliest scientists first observed the waves that earthquakes produce before they could accurately describe the nature of earthquakes or their fundamental causes, as discussed in Lessons 1–5.

A science teacher at Half Hollow Hills High School East in Dix Hills was mid-lesson about earthquakes when a 4.8-magnitude earthquake started shaking her classroom. “The ground starts to shake ...

School teacher Christina Garcia was teaching a lesson when the earthquake hit. "I noticed the Eno board shaking just a little bit," said Garcia. "And it probably lasted a few seconds and then I ...

While the mainshock was felt along the Wasatch Front with 30,000 Utahns reporting feeling it to the USGS, the state ...

"Japan has lessons that they can give to everyone ... The plates' constant grinding can cause 1,500 earthquakes a year. As a result, Japan has been honing its earthquake preparedness for many ...

Lessons from a disaster: Binod Tiwari, a geo-technical engineer from Cal State Fullerton, examines a building damaged by the April 25 earthquake in Nepal. Photo: Los Angeles Times/TNS/Molly ...

Professors at Cal Poly Humboldt are hosting a public forum, “Evening Discussion of Local Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards,” to ...

That's how the bridge survived, and for helping more than 10,000 people to evacuate, it's now known as the "Helpful Bridge." Bridges and city structures are less likely to collapse and burn now ...

Although only an infant at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, Tomoya Onodera is among the young people ...

Many prefectural officials who were involved in front-line operations in the immediate aftermath of the massive earthquake ...

The lessons are part of the spa resort’s activities to teach schoolchildren about the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. Mayu Watanabe, one of the Hula Girls, wore a pale pink hibiscus in her ...