A major Hayward fault quake could shake some Bay Area communities harder than expected because of the ground beneath them, new federal simulations show.
This gradual accumulation and release of stress and strain is now referred to as the "elastic rebound theory" of earthquakes. Most earthquakes are the result of the sudden elastic rebound of ...
Japan built E-Defense, the world’s largest earthquake simulator, after the 1995 Kobe earthquake killed more than 6,000 people and left 300,000 homeless. Its massive shake table can support a 10-story ...