Seismic kitchen roll: photograph showing paper towel being stretched between an anchor (bottom) and springs (top). (Courtesy: Tzortzopoulos et al. / Geophysical Research Letters) A seismic model based ...

For more than 30 years, the models that researchers and government agencies use to forecast earthquake aftershocks have remained largely unchanged. While these older models work well with limited data ...

An earthquake forecasting model has pegged the odds of a San Andreas quake happening within the next year at 1.15%. The model is trained to give accurate probabilities of when earthquakes are likely ...

New Delhi: Earthquake predictions on social media have become a headache for Indian government officials, even when they occasionally get it right. On 28 February this year, a little-known X account ...