Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault surfaces to the possibility of earthquake occurrences. Published in the ...

An artificial-intelligence approach borrowed from natural-language processing -- much like language translation and autofill for text on your smart phone -- can predict future fault friction and the ...

Fault nucleation and growth are central to earthquake hazard. Here we analyse fault development in Alzo granite under triaxial confining pressures of 5–40 MPa using a time-delay neural network applied ...

Predicting earthquakes has long been an unattainable fantasy. Factors like odd animal behaviors that have historically been thought to forebode earthquakes are not supported by empirical evidence. As ...

Pre- and co-seismic stress loading promoted low-angle splay fault during the 2025 M w 7.1 Tingri earthquake The summation of the shear and normal stress changes provides the Coulomb stress change ...