Welcome to the Earthquake Lab of EarthPulse Center. Here you will have the opportunity to emulate modern-day geophysicists as they monitor earthquakes and attempt to gain a better understanding of ...

Geotechnical Engineering Professor Ramin Motamed is a faculty member in the College of Engineering’s Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. His areas of research include shake table tests on ...

Geologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have quantified the complete energy budget of an earthquake for the first time. Particularly, the team looked at how much energy is ...

Earthquakes and landslides are famously difficult to predict and prepare for. By studying a miniature version of the ground in the lab, scientists at the UvA Institute of Physics have demonstrated how ...

Studying earthquakes can be a tricky business, especially as scientists don’t know exactly when or where they’ll strike. The Fault Activation and Earthquake Rupture (FEAR) project—a new facility deep ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The University of Nevada’s world-renowned earthquake laboratory has launched a nearly $4 million research project aimed at making nonstructural parts of buildings more earthquake ...

RENO, Nev. — Scientists at a Nevada earthquake lab on Wednesday tested new bridge designs with connectors they say are innovative and created to better withstand violent temblors and speed ...

The technology used to measure and monitor earthquakes has remained largely unchanged over the past century, but a breakthrough from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory utilizing telecommunication ...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck 19 km southeast of Silver Springs, Nevada, during a week when multiple moderate seismic ...

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake recorded about 15 miles outside of Las Vegas was felt across the Las Vegas valley Thursday afternoon, according to the he Nevada Seismological Laboratory of the University ...