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A map of estimated degree of damage (black to yellow) in settlements across the zone affected by the 2025 Myanmar earthquake
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Video Shows Pulsing and Curving Fault Behavior

by Veronika Meduna 21 August 202521 August 2025

A chance video captured a fault rupture during March’s devastating Myanmar earthquake, delivering real-time evidence of how major seismic tremors propagate.

Map from the study.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Trapped Charge Techniques Pinpoint Past Fault Slip

by Alexis Ault 18 August 202514 August 2025

Scientists combine two novel dating techniques on fault gouge to better pinpoint the timing and nature of past fault activity in the Eastern Alps.

A photo of a gray surface pockmarked with craters, as well as a line representing a fault.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Much Has Mercury Shrunk?

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 13 August 202513 August 2025

Mercury is still shrinking as it cools in the aftermath of its formation; new research narrows down estimates of just how much it has contracted.

Diagram from the study.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

The State of Stress in the Nankai Subduction Zone

by Alexandre Schubnel 4 August 202531 July 2025

The Nankai subduction zone, in southern Japan, has hosted several large magnitude 8+ earthquakes during the last three hundred years. But, how stressed is it right now? 

A green hill sits beneath a blue sky.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Isotopes Unearth History of Earthquakes in the Apennines

by Nathaniel Scharping 17 April 202517 April 2025

Dating of cosmogenic chlorine isotopes yields long-term estimates of fault activity in Italy, showing that periods of earthquakes and quiescence alternate over millennia.

A satellite image of the border between Türkiye and Syria is marked with multicolored waves. The magnitude 7.8 mainshock is marked on the map, and a scale at the bottom shows the interferometric phase in radians from −3.14 to 3.14.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Türkiye-Syria Temblors Reveal Missing Piece in Earthquake Physics

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 15 April 202515 April 2025

Newly discovered aseismic events triggered by the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake may represent a mode of fault slip between earthquakes and slow-slip events that researchers have long been seeking.

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用分布式声学传感探测地下奥秘

by Yingping Li, Robert Mellors and Ge Zhan 20 March 202519 March 2025

新书探讨了安装在井孔中的光纤电缆如何监测地震活动、流体流动、地下温度等。

Graph and map from the study
Posted inEditors' Highlights

How (Slow) Earthquakes Get Going

by Thorsten W. Becker 17 March 202517 March 2025

Non-volcanic tremor ramp up precedes slow slip in Cascadia by about a day, indicating that brittle-creeping process interactions control nucleation.

Map from the study.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Skewed Subduction Shear Zones

by Thorsten W. Becker 20 February 202519 February 2025

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

Cracked and uplifted earth at a fault zone on a vineyard.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Slow But Powerful Fault Slip Can Simply Arise from Fluid Flow

by Yihe Huang 15 January 202514 January 2025

Cyclic changes of fluid pressure in fault zones can induce slow-slip events that advance in the direction of fluid flow, even when the faults are stable.

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