Duke faculty and students are working with colleagues in Nepal to give the country more warning before deadly earthquakes ...

Duke University and Tribhuvan University are collaborating to develop Nepal’s first comprehensive earthquake early warning system, combining smart seismic sensors, AI models, and public communication ...

A new study uncovers a hidden pattern of ground motions at the end of big earthquakes that could help scientists and planners ...

Sensors and observation instruments being lowered into a borehole off the coast of Japan nearly 1,500 feet below the seafloor during an International Ocean Discovery Program mission in 2016. Sensors ...

Researchers from a renowned U.S. university captured a slow slip earthquake in motion. It was captured during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at the bottom of the ocean. A ...

New research indicates that slow-motion earthquakes or 'slow-slip events' can rupture the shallow portion of a fault that also moves in large, tsunami-generating earthquakes. The finding has important ...

From the world’s largest outdoor earthquake simulator to an international network of seismic stations, UC San Diego is a living laboratory for seismic safety. Researchers across campus are trying to ...

The Hikurangi Ocean Bottom Investigation of Tremor and Slow Slip (HOBITSS) detected a slow slip event at the Hikurangi subduction zone, where the Pacific Plate dives beneath New Zealand’s North Island ...