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Wells drilled into Oklahoma's Arbuckle formation inject wastewater (1) which then disperses through the rock. As it spreads, the wastewater can trigger earthquakes in fault zones (2), but their size depends on the amount injected and the rock's properties. The new model can predict quake probabilities by the quantity of wastewater injected.

Predicting earthquake hazards from wastewater injection

Earthquakes run in packs, but you can hear them coming, as noted in research from Los Alamos National Laboratory and California Institute of Technology.

Faint foreshocks foretell California quakes

Aerial view of the hydraulic fracturing rig at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site. Credit: Matthew Hampson, Cuadrilla Resources Ltd

Predicting seismic activity at fracking sites to prevent earthquakes

U of T's Jeremy Rimando sets up Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) survey equipment to measure the amount of displacement on the Las Chacras Fault in San Juan, Argentina.

Research could protect cities in active earthquake zones

Along the North Anatolian Fault, Anatolia and the Eurasian Earth Plate push past each other. Image reproduced from the GEBCO world map 2014, www.gebco.net

Istanbul: Seafloor study proves earthquake risk for the first time

earthquake in Southern California

11% chance of another huge earthquake in Southern California, scientists say

The velocity model showing a map view of the MHT and a cross-section passing through the Gorkha earthquake

Study reveals key factor in Himalayan earthquake rupture

Scientists and shipboard crew await the arrival of a new sediment core onboard research vessel RV Sonne in 2016.

Contradictory effect of earthquakes on submarine slopes

Earthquake damage in the centre of Amatrice, Italy, in 2016 (

Stresses from past earthquakes explain location of seismic events

Zipingpu Reservoir

Zipingpu Reservoir reveals climate-tectonics interplay around 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Oarfish specimen

Deep-Sea Fish Do Not Signal Upcoming Earthquake in Japan

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Earthquakes that talk to each other

In four sample events (colored lines), the acceleration of peak ground displacement (measurements shown at right) just five seconds later suggests whether a megaquake, such as a magnitude 9 (red X) or a sub-7 magnitude quake is in progress. Real time monitoring, the researchers say, could enhance earthquake early warning.

Scientists find telling early moment that indicates a coming megaquake

Conventional geothermal resources have been generating commercial power for decades in places where heat and water from burble up through naturally permeable rock.

Solving geothermal energy’s earthquake problem

State Highway 287 slumped into Hebgen Lake; damage from the August 1959 Hebgen Lake (Montana-Yellowstone) earthquake.

Aftershocks of 1959 earthquake rocked Yellowstone in 2017-18

USGS map highlights earthquake risk zones. Blue boxes indicate areas of high activity of human-caused earthquake due to deep bore fluid injection.

Earthquakes are triggered well beyond fluid injection zones

Earthquake mangled track

Scientists take a ‘metamaterials’ approach to earthquake damage

Image showing landslide failures around Orcas Island. The red line marks the newly discovered Skipjack fault zone. Credit: H. Gary Greene

Salish seafloor mapping identifies earthquake and tsunami risks

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Scientists identify almost two million previously ‘hidden’ earthquakes

Tibetan Plateau

Folding faults and seismic risk in the Kunlun range, Northwest Tibet

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