When Texas Started Shaking More Than California In 2023, Texas and California were nearly tied for the number of magnitude 3 ...

Seismic kitchen roll: photograph showing paper towel being stretched between an anchor (bottom) and springs (top). (Courtesy: Tzortzopoulos et al. / Geophysical Research Letters) A seismic model based ...

New research published recently in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explains that shallow wastewater injections from oil and gas production are the drivers of earthquakes, ...

In work that offers insight into the magnitude of the hazards posed by earthquake faults in general, seismologists have developed a model to determine the size of an earthquake that could be triggered ...

A rock sample is compressed in this apparatus. The sample is fitted with many sensors to detect acoustic emissions, i.e. micro-earthquakes. Man-made earthquakes, so called induced seismicity, have ...

Geoscientists have found that shallow wastewater injection -- not deep wastewater injections -- can drive widespread deep earthquake activity in unconventional oil and gas production fields. In a ...

Scientists generated a catalog of 22,000 seismic events from a four-year period to reveal the structure of an active fault zone. A naturally occurring injection of underground fluids drove a four-year ...