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predicting earthquakes

09/15/2018 / By David Williams

Deciphering earthquake patterns: Scientists examining sediment cores determine large quakes are not as random as previously thought

Earthquakes can be devastating primarily because of two things: first, they tend to have massively destructive power; and second, they are largely unpredictable. Indeed, because of the seemingly random occurrences of most earthquakes, they usually leave behind huge amounts of destruction. Now a new team of researchers has gathered data to prove that, despite all […]

05/23/2018 / By Edsel Cook

A fault in the East Bay deemed more dangerous than San Andreas; geologists call it a “tectonic time bomb”

Federal geologists have recently identified a fault running beneath the East Bay area that could turn out to be more dangerous and deadly than the infamous San Andreas fault. In an L.A. Times report, the Hayward fault is a “tectonic time bomb” that would do more damage than the great 1906 earthquake that destroyed San […]

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