A new seismic station was installed in August 2025 on Burley Mountain, near Mount Rainier. After a swarm of earthquakes ...

Aerial view of the devastated along the north eastern coast of Japan following a massive earthquake and tsunami March 25, 2011. The undersea, magnitude 9.0 “megathrust” earthquake—the worst in Japan’s ...

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Google's earthquake early-warning system has used phone accelerometers on Android devices to increase quake alerts by tenfold ...

Android earthquake detection has reshaped how people stay safe in seismic events by turning billions of smartphones into a global detection network. These everyday devices act as miniature sensors, ...

Using everyday tech Normally scientists detect and measure earthquakes with extraordinarily sensitive instruments known as seismometers. However, these instruments are often few and far between, ...

Thunder from an earthquake and the roar of a jet feel worlds apart. Yet deep under your feet, both can leave nearly the same kind of trace. New research from the University of Alaska Fairbanks shows ...

In the photo above, a seismometer is buried about five feet underground. The seismometer is one of the units deployed by the Iowa Geological Survey so it could measure seismicity — or the frequency of ...