Charles Richter's observation that'only fools and charlatans predict earthquakes,'reflects the
fact that despite more than 100 years of effort, seismologists remain unable to do so with …

Background The earthquake that struck the Los Angeles area at 4: 31 am on January 17,
1994, was one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in a major city in North America …

Earthquake mitigation efforts in the United States currently use long-term probabilistic
hazard assessments and rapid post-earthquake notification to reduce the potential damage …

Recent earthquakes have shown that fault interaction can affect rupture sequences.
However, few criteria are currently available to determine which fault segments are strongly …

The Mw 6.7 Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, 1994, beneath the San
Fernando Valley. Two seismicity clusters, located 25 km to the south and 35 km to the north …

The analysis of seismograms from 32 aftershocks recorded by 98 seismic stations installed
after the Northridge earthquake in the San Fernando Valley, the Santa Monica Mountains …

Minima of the local recurrence time, TL (M), are correlated with the locations of historical
main shocks in the San Jacinto (SJ)‐Elsinore (E) fault zones of southern California. We …

A large Mw 7.1 earthquake struck the area north of the city of Van in easternmost Turkey on
23 October 2011. The mainshock epicenter and most of the aftershocks were located south …

Great earthquakes are one of the major threats to modern society due to their great
destructive power and unpredictability. The maximum credible earthquake (MCE) for a …

We describe the three-dimensional geometry and Quaternary slip history of the Puente Hills
blind-thrust system (PHT) using seismic reflection profiles, petroleum well data, and …