Researchers from the University of Bergamo, Italy, GFZ Helmholtz Center for Geosciences, Germany, and the ...

A seismometer might have been more helpful than river gauges during Germany’s catastrophic floods last year, showing researchers that earthquake sensors could be a vital tool during other kinds of ...

The issue of earthquakes -- and how to protect both lives and property before, during and after those tremors -- never seems to be too far from the minds of many Californians. Northern California, for ...

Many of the world’s largest and most devastating earthquakes strike beneath the ocean, where the lack of sensors makes quick warnings difficult. Most monitoring stations are on land. “If we have a big ...

Dan Kavarian, chief building official for the city of Napa, walks around the downtown area red tagging buildings that were deemed unsafe after a 6.0 earthquake hit the area on Aug. 24, 2014. (MCT) — ...

When an earthquake hits, even a few seconds advance notice can be precious. Because digital communications can outrun seismic waves, scientists at the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory have designed ...

Networked sensor systems that measure seismic activity are vulnerable to hacking, which could have implications from monitoring nuclear tests to planning for disaster relief, according to Greek ...

The University of Washington and two colleges in California have won $6 million in grants for an earthquake early warning system that would give us an alert of seconds to minutes before shaking. The ...

SEATTLE — The United States Geological Survey (WSGS) announced Wednesday that its ShakeAlert System, which alerts the public before an earthquake begins, will add real-time satellite data to improve ...

When sports fans get really excited it seems like there's an earthquake – and scientists don't want to let that phenomenon go to waste. As the American football teams the Seahawks and the Green Bay ...

George Dickson never knows where the next phone call will come from. It might be from Chile, Mexico, Haiti or New Zealand. This week, was Japan. As CEO of California-based Seismic Warning Systems (SWS ...

Among the many things the Bay Area learned from the recent shaker near Napa is that the University of California, Berkeley's earthquake warning system does indeed work for the handful of people who ...