UC Irvine |

Precariously balanced rocks provide clues to fault connections

San Jacinto, San Andreas interaction weakens earthquake shaking near them, study lead by UC Irvine finds.

UC Berkeley |

Earthquake early warning system moves closer to reality

U.S. Geological Survey awards $4 million grant to UC Berkeley and its research partners to ramp up ShakeAlert prototype.
UCLA Magazine |

Homes with heart for Sendai

Architecture and urban design chair Hitoshi Abe is designing homes that will rise from the rubble in his quake- and tsunami-damaged hometown in Japan.
UC Berkeley |

Scientists begin monitoring tremors on San Andreas Fault

Borehole seismometers will monitor faint tremors beneath the San Andreas Fault — part of UC Berkeley’s TremorScope project to determine the link between tremors and earthquakes.
UC Berkeley |

Calaveras-Hayward fault link means potentially larger quakes

Seismologists have proven that the Hayward and Calaveras faults are essentially the same system, meaning that a rupture on one could trigger a rupture on the other, producing considerably larger quakes than once thought.
UCLA |

Researchers document disaster recovery in, around Fukushima

Video, photos, interviews and mapping tools capture the extent of damage four years after the 2011 quake and tsunami.
UC San Diego |

New map exposes details of seafloor

Mysteries of the deep come alive as satellite data bring thousands of uncharted sea mountains and new clues about deep ocean structures into focus.
Lawrence Livermore Lab |

Data from Napa quake advances seismic science

New sources of information fuel both knowledge and emergency response.
UC Berkeley |

10-second warning for Napa quake

Scientists at the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory were alerted moments before Sunday morning's 6.0 magnitude temblor, courtesy of the ShakeAlert earthquake early-warning system.
UC Santa Cruz |

Old evidence leads to new ideas about quake hazards in Pacific Northwest

Sediment cores collected in 1960s for doctoral thesis have attracted renewed scrutiny for clues to Cascadia earthquakes.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

No ocean-borne radiation from Fukushima found

Kelp Watch 2014, a project that tests kelp along the western U.S. coast for signs of radioactive seawater, has found none from the 2011 disaster.
UC Davis |

Small window of time for volcano eruption

Mount Hood study: Liquid magma, necessary for eruption, is uncommon.