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Geotimes August 2006 Megan Sever	Faster Tsunami Warnings with GPS Time is of the essence when a giant earthquake strikes, especially underwater. Now, a team of researchers says that they have found a new way -- using GPS -- to more quickly determine if the quake is large enough to produce an ocean-wide tsunami.
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Shift in Chile's Seismic History New research documenting tsunami deposits in the Nazca plate region is resetting the seismic clock.
Geotimes March 2005 Laura Stafford	Sumatra Seismic Risk Recent research indicates that Indonesia, as well as other regions like the Caribbean, could experience more earthquake and tsunami activity in the near future.
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick	Tsunami Devastates Asia Geoscientists won't know exactly what happened in the Indian Ocean event until they can get into the field.
Geotimes June 2005 Naomi Lubick	California Earthquake Spawns Tsunami Worry The epicenter of a magnitude-7.2 earthquake that struck off northern California set off a tsunami warning for the entire West Coast, leading to an evacuation from Crescent City, Calif.
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Magnitude-8.7 Earthquake Hits Sumatra, Small Tsunami Wave Detected An earthquake that was quite close the site of December's catastrophic quake has prompted warning bulletins from NOAA's Pacific Tsunami Warning system suggesting the evacuation of coastlines within 1,000 kilometers of the epicenter.
Geotimes May 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Slow Earthquakes, Tiny Tremors Small earthquakes and tiny tremors originating deep in fault zones are the result of slow earthquakes at Earth's surface, according to a new study.
Geotimes December 2005	Highlights 2005 -- Natural Hazards Drilling a fault... Mount St. Helens awakens... Reviewing Sumatra... SAFOD crosses the fault...
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Large Quake, Small Tsunami for Japan A large earthquake several hundred kilometers offshore Japan triggered a tsunami warning and a subsequent small tsunami. Three or four large events have occurred on this subduction fault over the past several centuries, as the Pacific plate slowly presses westward under Japan.
Geotimes March 2005 Susan E. Hough	Earthquakes: Predicting the Unpredictable? Seismologists are quite good at identifying where large earthquakes are likely to occur on time scales of several decades to centuries, but still unable to identify regions where earthquakes will happen tomorrow, next week, or even within the next few years.
Geotimes June 2005 Naomi Lubick	California Earthquake Roundup Several significant earthquakes have struck California this week, ranging from 4.9 to 7.2 in magnitude, with two off the coast of Northern California and two in the Los Angeles basin. Scientists say that they are mostly unrelated.
Geotimes January 2006 Naomi Lubick	Seismic Warnings Researchers suggest that the first few seconds of an earthquake have the potential to reveal the final size that an earthquake will grow to be -- with implications for how earthquakes physically unfold.
Geotimes May 2006 Naomi Lubick	Measuring the Sumatra Quake The motions on the fault that set off the Dec. 26, 2004, earthquake that sent a tsunami across the Indian Ocean continue to puzzle seismologists.
Geotimes December 2003 Naomi Lubick	San Simeon Earthquake Seismologists have tentatively pegged the source of December 22's 6.5-magnitude earthquake that destroyed the landmark building in the town of Paso Robles and killed at least two people.
Geotimes December 2006 Margaret Putney	Tsunami Risk Still High in Sumatra Another major earthquake and tsunami will strike the western coast of Sumatra sometime in the next few decades, according to researchers studying the region's history. And the predicted tsunami has a significant chance of hitting densely populated areas, the team says.
Geotimes November 2006 Megan Sever	Earthquakes, Tsunamis Strike Japan A magnitude-8.3 earthquake struck off the Kuril Islands between Japan and Russia, followed by a series of strong aftershocks, at least four of which were above magnitude 6.0, according to the USGS.
Geotimes December 2005 David Applegate	A Year of Living Dangerously Recent destructive events are reminders of our society's growing vulnerability to natural disasters as more people move into harm's way. Scientists seeking to understand the underlying geologic systems have an obligation to learn more.
Geotimes February 2004 Naomi Lubick	Triggering Tsunamis A controversy over whether an earthquake or an underwater landslide generated the 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami rekindled interest in such events; it also drew geologists into a field that had been dominated by modelers and seismologists.
Geotimes March 2007 Carolyn Gramling	New Madrid Fault Dying? A series of devastating earthquakes that altered the course of the Mississippi River in the early 19th century may have been among the last gasps of an old, dying fault system, a controversial new study suggests.
Geotimes December 2004 Megan Sever	Devastation in the Indian Ocean A magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Sunday morning, followed by dozens of powerful aftershocks and large tsunamis that reached as far as the east coast of Africa, some 4,800 kilometers away.
Popular Mechanics October 5, 2009 Amber Angelle	Earthquake Research Digs Deep to Find Timely Warning System Right now, the best that seismologists can do to "predict" earthquakes is to send out a warning immediately after activity is detected.
Geotimes May 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Earthquake Sends Tonga Trembling Strong shaking awoke residents of Tonga when a magnitude-7.9 earthquake rocked the region today. Although Tonga is seismically active, seismologists say that such a large-magnitude event is unusual for the region.
Geotimes June 2006 Megan Sever	Plate Shifts in the Pacific Northwest The far northern section of the Sumatra-style subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest could be transforming into more of a San Andreas-style seismic zone, according to new research. This geologic reorganization could have implications for the region's earthquake risk.
Geotimes June 2004 Naomi Lubick	Super-Size Quake California fell into the sea during a television miniseries aired by NBC. In addition to the other faulty geologic premises of the melodrama, one elemental error is the size of the earthquake that spawned the miniseries' disasters.
Geotimes July 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Quake Triggers Deadly Tsunami Off Java A major undersea earthquake occurred south of Indonesia, triggering a local tsunami that hit the island of Java. At least 80 people are dead after a 6-foot-high wave crashed ashore on the island's southern coast.
Scientific American March 2005 Madhusree Mukerjee	The Scarred Earth Tsunami-spawning quake leaves geophysical changes.
Geotimes August 2005 Naomi Lubick	Brian Atwater: Earthquake Hunter in the Field Brian Atwater has spent nearly two decades investigating the great tsunami of 1700 that swamped the coastline of the Pacific Northwest and traveled all the way to Japan with devastating effects.
AskMen.com Bernie Alexander	Tsunamis: Waves Of Destruction Understanding the tsunami: definition, origins, history, warning signs, etc.
Geotimes August 2003 Naomi Lubick	Fast earthquakes break speed limit Some earthquakes may move faster than seismologists once thought possible. A new study published in the Aug. 8 Science shows the most convincing data yet that a large earthquake can travel down a fault at velocities that surpass theoretical limits.
Geotimes October 2003 Josh Chamot	Earthquake warning tools The ability to forecast a seismic event has been an elusive goal, but researchers are accepting the challenge and are using recent advances in seismic and computational technology to attempt to decipher Earth's subtle clues.
Geotimes May 2005 David Applegate	Lessons From Sumatra In the months following the December 26, 2004 earthquake and tsunami U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists and their colleagues around the world have been working hard to learn from the tragedy so that such loss of life does not happen again.
Geotimes September 2005 Naomi Lubick	Repositioning Tokyo's Fault Seismologists now think Tokyo's fault sits closer to Earth's surface than previously thought. If the fault is indeed shallower, the new assessment has the potential to revise the projected hazards Tokyo may face in the future.
BusinessWeek March 17, 2011 Jonathan Tirone	Searching for Clues Along the Ring of Fire Japan's earthquake will generate aftershocks for years, producing data that may yield insights about the quake-prone Pacific Rim.
Geotimes October 2006 Jennifer Yauck	River Bends Reveal Past Quakes The connection between river courses and earthquake activity is allowing seismologists to look at past earthquakes along a Midwestern fault zone with new perspective, and could enable them to more accurately assess future earthquake risk in the Mississippi region.
Popular Mechanics May 13, 2008 Erik Sofge	3 Frontiers in Earthquake Tech to Aid China--and Help the U.S. Can a network of GPS sensors store enough data online to scout the Bay Area's looming quake? And could the rig work in the Chinese countryside?
Popular Mechanics July 30, 2008 Erik Sofge	L.A. Quake Was Minor, but Is America Ready for the Big One? The quake preparedness of Los Angeles was put to the test yesterday, but only barely.
Geotimes June 2004 Megan Sever	Midwest Shaking An earthquake rattled northwestern Illinois and points across the Midwest this morning Monday, June 28 at about 1:10 a.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Geotimes August 2005 Naomi Lubick	Sumatra Tsunami Fault Photographed Oceanographers took the first close-up photographs of one of the remaining fault scarps: a cliff face that is one in a pair of parallel faults that created a kind of canyon just off the continental shelf of Sumatra.
Geotimes November 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Tsunami Risk High in Myanmar Once thought to be relatively seismically quiet, the northern part of the Bay of Bengal may instead be prone to giant earthquakes that could spawn tsunamis, with potentially devastating consequences for the bay's densely populated coasts, according to a new study.
Geotimes August 2004 Sara Pratt	Pressure Shifts in Yellowstone The 2002 rupture of Alaska's Denali fault triggered more than 250 smaller-magnitude quakes, altering the eruption behavior of many of the park's famed geysers.
Geotimes December 2003 Naomi Lubick	Glacial earthquakes Seismologists have fingered glaciers as one source of newly discovered "slow" earthquakes.
Scientific American June 2009 Charles Q. Choi	Are Midwestern Earthquake Faults Shutting Down? Midwesterners may have already seen the last of earthquakes in their region
Geotimes May 2004 Naomi Lubick	New New Madrid Findings New research has moved a historical earthquake off the New Madrid faults, possibly changing the hazard conditions for the region and across the eastern United States.
Geotimes November 2006 Laura S. L. Kong	Guarding Against Tsunamis: What Does It Mean To Be Ready? Despite the implementation of new tsunami warning systems, much work is ahead before the coastal communities of the world can be truly prepared.
Geotimes March 2005 Sara Pratt	Quake Uplifted Japan A large 17th-century earthquake comparable in size to the Dec. 26 Sumatra quake was responsible for pushing up land in Japan, according to new research based on the sediment record of a large tsunami.
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Keiiti Aki: Seismological Polymath Like the seismic waves he studies, Keiiti Aki's pioneering work on the basic tenets of seismology reaches across the planet.
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Bolivian Earthquake Strikes Deep A magnitude-6.9 earthquake rumbled through Bolivia and northern Chile yesterday. No immediate deaths or damage were reported, although people evacuated their homes.
Popular Mechanics February 15, 2009 Karen Rowan	Predicting Earthquakes: Scientists Use Satellites and Drills to Follow a Force of Nature The awesome energy unleashed by earthquakes is something geologists still struggle to understand. To gather information on how the Earth moves, scientists use drills and GPS satellites.
Geotimes March 2004 Mark Zoback	Earthquake Prediction and the Developing World The toll from the Iranian earthquake in December -- at least 30,000 dead and an estimated 40,000 homeless in just a few seconds -- is difficult to comprehend. Unfortunately, we can predict with reasonable certainty that sometime in the next few years, in a country with buildings unprepared to withstand disaster, a catastrophic quake will happen again
Geotimes September 2003 Megan Sever	Giant earthquake hits Japan A magnitude-8.1 earthquake struck off the southeastern coast of Hokkaido, Japan, before dawn on Friday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Japanese quake is the strongest to hit anywhere in the world this year.