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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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 July 2003 Greg Peterson	Quake protection in the heartland A new building code based on a USGS map of earthquake risk suggests that buildings within the New Madrid zone -- which stretches from just west of Memphis, Tenn., to southern Illinois -- should meet the same seismic standards as those in California.
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 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 April 2005 Naomi Lubick	Sumatra Quake Stronger Than Thought Now that researchers have had time to go back to the records, they are finding indications that last December's Sumatra earthquake released much more energy than they thought, in the form of rare low-frequency seismic waves.
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.
Popular Mechanics January 13, 2010 Cassie Rodenberg	Could Haiti's Earthquake Tragedy Have Been Prevented? One group of scientists thinks so. Back in 2008, Eric Calais and Paul Mann, geophysicists who study fault lines in the Caribbean, predicted that Haiti would soon face such a devastating quake.
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 July 2007	Geophysicist Ross Stein Like all who study earthquakes, Ross Stein doesn't want to just understand them - he wants to anticipate them.
IEEE Spectrum April 2011 Peter Fairley	Earthquakes Hinder Green Energy Plans Quakes slow geothermal energy, hydropower, and carbon sequestration projects
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Earthquake Shakes East Africa A magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook the Lake Tanganyika region in Africa today.
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.
Geotimes October 2004 Jay Chapman	Melting Glaciers Promote Earthquakes In southern Alaska, melting glaciers heat up the possibility of earthquakes.
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 February 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Earthquake Rocks East Africa The East African Rift Zone experienced a damaging magnitude-7.4 earthquake Thursday in Mozambique, centered about 215 kilometers southwest of Beira.
Geotimes October 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Talc May Reduce Friction at Creeping Fault A three-kilometer-deep borehole drilled by SAFOD in 2005 crossed the central "creeping" part of the San Andreas Fault, producing rock cuttings containing both serpentinite and talc.
Geotimes July 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Afar From Close-up Powerful stresses in the crust lead to frequent earthquakes and volcanism in the Afar Depression of northeastern Ethiopia. Researchers now say that the source of this activity reveals a possible new connection in Earth's interior.
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 December 2003 Naomi Lubick	Cascading earthquakes in L.A. A new understanding of the fault architecture underlying the Los Angeles basin that takes into account the effects of cascading tremors along adjacent faults has led seismologists to reconsider the seismic threats to the Los Angeles metropolis.
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 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 August 2005	Drilling project finds fault A drill rig in California is being used to research the San Andreas fault.
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 December 2005	Highlights 2005 -- Natural Hazards Drilling a fault... Mount St. Helens awakens... Reviewing Sumatra... SAFOD crosses the fault...
Geotimes December 2003 Naomi Lubick	Glacial earthquakes Seismologists have fingered glaciers as one source of newly discovered "slow" earthquakes.
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 March 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Earthquake Jostles Iran After an evening of precursory tremors, a magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck western Iran today.
Geotimes December 2006	Top Natural Hazards News Stories of 2006 Looking Into Landslides... Getting Ready for the Rumble... Levee Concerns Abound... Spreading Wildfire... etc.
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 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 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.
Geotimes November 2003 Naomi Lubick	Turkish tectonics Researchers recently published preliminary results of the first data collected with modern techniques documenting the tectonic and seismic regimes of eastern Turkey. Their work may overturn conceptions of the tectonic setting of the region.
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 November 2007	Down to Earth With.... David Applegate An interview with David Applegate: historian, geologist, Congressional Science Fellow, former editor of Geotimes, and presently the head of the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program.
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 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	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 July 2004 Jay Chapman	Squishy plates Using groundbreaking satellite techniques, new research suggests continental crust reacts to strain more like toothpaste than rigid blocks of rock.
Geotimes April 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Deep Sediments, Strong Quakes The surprising strength of the earthquake that triggered the 2004 Sumatran tsunami urged seismologists to discover triggers that lead up to these events. New models show responsibility may rest on sediments than can collect kilometers deep at the junctions of tectonic plates.
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.
Chemistry World March 26, 2009 Jon Cartwright	Quakes eat up the heat More than half of the heat generated by friction in earthquakes could go to towards endothermic reactions, a study by geoscientists in Japan and Taiwan has shown.
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 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 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.