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December 15, 2023
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March 23, 2023
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Shallow Aseismic Slip in the Delaware Basin Determined by Sentinel-1 InSAR
Earthquakes from oil field wastewater
May 19, 2022
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January 28, 2022
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2021 Charles F. Richter Early Career Award: Seyed Mostafa Mousavi
The Richter Award recipient is Seyed Mostafa Mousavi, a research scientist at Google and an adjunct professor at Stanford University. He is honored for his innovative work developi
June 11, 2021
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May 03, 2021
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April 27, 2020
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Stanford researchers create seismic stress map of North America
The Earth’s crustal stress field controls active deformation and reflects the processes driving plate tectonics. Here we present the first quantitative synthesis of relative princi
April 23, 2020
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Stanford researchers explain earthquakes we can’t feel
Researchers have explained mysterious slow-moving earthquakes known as slow slip events with the help of computer simulations. The answer, they learned, is in rocks’ pores.
August 21, 2019
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Lessons from Pohang: A Stanford geophysicist discusses geothermal energy’s earthquake problem – and possible solutions
A geothermal energy project triggered a damaging earthquake in 2017 in South Korea. A new analysis suggests flaws in some of the most common ways of trying to minimize the risk of
May 23, 2019
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Could Machine Learning Be the Key to Earthquake Prediction?
Predicting earthquakes might be impossible, but some experts wonder if tools that can analyze enormous amounts of data could crack the seismic code
April 23, 2019
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Scientists Uncover California’s Hidden Earthquakes
Nearly two million tiny tremors could help explain the inner workings of key faults.
April 08, 2019
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What can machine learning tell us about the solid Earth?
Scientists are training machine learning algorithms to help shed light on earthquake hazards, volcanic eruptions, groundwater flow and longstanding mysteries about what goes on ben
March 21, 2019
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Researchers study Permian for answers on injection-induced earthquakes
Concerns about human-caused earthquakes could shake up water disposal in the oil patch. Seismicity and research into injection-induced earthquakes were the focus of a recent visit
December 13, 2018
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Future of Everything - Greg Beroza
n The Future of Everything with Stanford School of Engineering’s Russ Altman, Beroza shares his insights on the future of seismology.
November 14, 2018
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Researchers pinpoint future probability of damaging man-made earthquakes
Stanford researchers have mapped local susceptibility to man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma and Kansas.
September 26, 2018
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After the Big One: Understanding aftershock risk
Geophysicist Gregory Beroza discusses the culprits behind destructive aftershocks and why scientists are harnessing A.I. to gain new insights into earthquake risks.
September 02, 2018
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Stanford study casts doubt on the predictive value of earthquake foreshocks
A Stanford-led study questions previous findings about the value of foreshocks as warning signs that a big earthquake is coming, instead showing them to be indistinguishable from o
June 04, 2018
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New map profiles induced earthquake risk for West Texas, New Mexico
A seismic stress map created by Stanford geophysicists can help predict which parts of West Texas and New Mexico may be at risk of fracking-induced earthquakes.
February 08, 2018
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Small earthquakes at fracking sites may be early indicators of bigger tremors to come, say Stanford scientists
Stanford geoscientists have devised a way of detecting thousands of faint, previously missed earthquakes triggered by hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.”
December 12, 2017