The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a grant of more than $750,000 to UC Santa Cruz seismologist Emily Brodsky. The grant funds Brodsky’s research to better understand the fault that ...

Ten years ago today, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Honshu on the Japan Trench, a subduction zone. Subduction occurs when an oceanic plate dives under another plate.

Thursday, March 11 marks 10 years since Japan’s Tohoku earthquake in 2011. The magnitude 9.1 temblor and the tsunami that followed killed 16,000 people, caused the Fukushima nuclear power plant to ...

The earthquake that struck Japan on New Year’s Day caused a grave tragedy but a political crisis, like that seen in 2011, seems to have been dodged. Police officers search victims from debris of ...

This vertical cliff consists of soft mud deposited on the Japan Trench bottom and was uplifted ~60 m by the 2011 megaquake. This was the first time that the fault scarp of a trench-type earthquake was ...