Tag: seismology

  • Science & Tech

    Predicting the strength of earthquakes

    Scientists will be able to predict earthquake magnitudes earlier thanks to new research by Marine Denolle, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard.

    2–4 minutes
    Professor and students looking at earthquake chart.
  • Science & Tech

    Learning to find ‘quiet’ earthquakes

    Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Marine Denolle is one of several co-authors of a study that used computer-learning algorithms to identify small earthquakes buried in seismic noise.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    KSG prof starts earthquake relief Web site

    Assistant Professor of Public Policy Asim Khwaja, with collaborators Jishnu Das and Tara Vishwanath from the World Bank and Tahir Andrabi from Pomona College, has rushed to create a Web site that can help coordinate relief efforts for the Pakistan earthquake. The site, complete with a list of affected villages and satellite maps, aims to…

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    New earthquake mapping system could save lives

    “The earthquake-hazard maps currently in use are based on the premise that the closer a building is to a large fault, the better designed it should be,” says Harvard earthquake expert John Shaw. “But what these new, comprehensive 3-D models we’ve developed tell us is that this basic rule of proximity doesn’t always work.” A…

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Discovering a new earthquake fault under Los Angeles

    “Los Angeles is caught in a vise,” says John Shaw, an associate professor of structural and economic geology at Harvard who was half of a research team that discovered a large, active crack in the earth, capable of causing destructive earthquakes, under Los Angeles. The researchers announced their discovery in March 1999. The crack, or…

    1–2 minutes