Science news articles about 'earthquake prediction'

In the aftermath of Sichuan earthquake, Chinese scientists are calling for enhanced earthquake prediction.

... few decades, it has remained very difficult to measure changes in the crust that could enable earthquake prediction. Now, scientists have measured interesting changes in the speed of seismic waves ...

... Sichuan region of China may fit with this predicted pattern. "Earthquake prediction is a bit like the thundercloud ... Longmen Shan fault zone ruptured in an earthquake that killed at least 69,000 people ...

Researchers are trying to improve earthquake probability forecasts and are working toward predicting and perhaps preventing earthquakes like the one that happened in Italy.

... the strength of geologic faults deep in the Earth. This finding could prove to be a boon for earthquake prediction by pinpointing those faults that are likely to fail and produce earthquakes. Until ...

... the most heavily instrumented places in the world, owing to the famous Parkfield, California, earthquake prediction experiment in the 1980s. Peng is currently using the matched filter technique to ...