Breaking News: Earthquakes

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Creighton Surgical team leaves Jan. 16 to treat victims of Haiti earthquake.

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Western Illinois University Emergency Management Assistant Professor Jack Rozdilsky specializes in natural hazards and emergency management issues. He is active in disaster field research and his work focuses on social and physical aspects of long-term disaster recovery.

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Experts at The University of Texas at Austin's College of Liberal Arts are available to discuss a host of earthquake-related topics, from disaster response and relief to social and political conflicts to the causes and effects of large-scale natural disasters.

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Experts for stories relating to health care in Haiti, disaster relief, earthquake engineering, water quality, historical and political perspectives on Haiti and other issues.

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Ryerson University experts can offer their expertise on breaking news on the Haiti disaster from buildings damaged by the earthquake and reconstruction to infection control.

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University of Iowa researcher Ann Campbell studies how governments and public agencies can better transport relief supplies to victims in disaster-stricken areas like Haiti, where roads, rail networks and ports are all but destroyed.

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The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that triggered disastrous destruction and mounting death tolls in Haiti this week occurred in a highly complex tangle of tectonic faults near the intersection of the Caribbean and North American crustal plates, according to a quake expert at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) who has studied faults in the region and throughout the world.

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University of New Hampshire professor of civil engineering Pedro de Alba, an expert on earthquake engineering, is available to discuss the implication of Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti. The powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake destroyed the capital city of Port-au-Prince and has a possible death toll of more than 50,000.

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A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti late Tuesday afternoon, causing widespread damage and many deaths and injuries. Indiana University experts comment on the quake and its likely aftermath.

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The eyes of the world are now focused on Haiti, and the effects of the recent earthquake disaster on the island nation are still unfolding. North Carolina State University researchers can help explain what happened, what may happen next, and what it could mean for Haiti’s political and economic future.

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Yesterday’s earthquake is not unexpected, which increases the tragedy, says geoscientists Michele Cooke. A challenge in assessing Caribbean earthquake hazards is that most of the tectonic plate is below sea level and “we can only access the active faults where they are exposed on the islands.”

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Attention TV media: Johns Hopkins has a VYVX line in our live-remote studio available to uplink interviews with our experts.

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University of Arkansas earthquake expert Brady Cox is available to answer questions about the effects of the powerful earthquake in Haiti, which has caused massive destruction, including the collapse of many government offices in the capital Port-au-Prince.

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Scientists have discovered more small seismic tremor events lasting one to 70 hours that occur in somewhat regular patterns in a megathrust earthquake zone in Washington state and British Columbia.

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Third in a series of Nature papers lays framework for new approach to earthquake prediction. Testing of new forecasting model is in progress: results are not expected for approximately another two years.

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Using a technique normally used for detecting weak tremors, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered that the 2004 magnitude 6 earthquake along the Parkfield section of the San Andreas fault exhibited almost 11 times more aftershocks than previously thought.

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New geo-archaeological research at the University of Haifa concludes that tsunami waves are reasonably likely to strike Israel. The study, carried out by Dr. Beverly N. Goodman, exposes evidence of four tsunami events on the coast of Caesarea.

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American Society of Civil Engineers sends post-disaster assessment team to review coast and lifeline system performance.

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The following faculty members from The George Washington University are available to comment on earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters.

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A group of professionals and graduate students will present a symposium during the 117th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in Toronto, Canada: Culturally Relevant Community Disaster Relief: Post-Earthquake Interventions in Sichuan, China, Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 11:00am-11:50 am. The symposium will focus on the ongoing mental health relief efforts provided after the catastrophic May 2008 earthquake in Sichuan Province, China.

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Rensselaer Associate Professor Michael Symans and incoming Dean of Engineering David Rosowsky are among the team of researchers who will converge in Japan next week to perform the largest earthquake simulation every attempted on a wooden structure. The multi-university team has placed this seven-story building on the world's largest shake table and will expose it to the force of an earthquake that hits once but every 2,500 years.

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As reports of a strong earthquake in Alaska continue to emerge today (June 22), a Baylor University earthquake researcher says this is not an unusual event in this area.

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A concrete material developed at the University of Michigan can heal itself when it cracks. No human intervention is necessary---just water and carbon dioxide.

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Researchers at the University of Michigan simulated an off-the-charts earthquake in a laboratory to test their new technique for bracing high-rise concrete buildings. Their technique passed the test, withstanding more movement than an earthquake would typically demand.

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Engineering researchers from UCSD and the University of Arizona have concluded three months of rigorous earthquake simulation tests on a half-scale three-story structure, and will now begin sifting through their results so they can be used in the future designs of buildings across the nation.

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In one corner of a huge civil engineering laboratory on campus, Dr. Ronaldo Luna watches a machine shake silt from the Mississippi River until it liquefies.

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Robert Olshansky, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois, says yesterday's 5.4-magnitude earthquake that shook people up but caused relatively minor damage in Southern California should be considered a public service announcement for vigilance and preparedness.

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David Elton is a professor of civil engineering at Auburn University and an expert on seismicity and earthquate damage.

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Staff members from the Center for Community Earthquake Preparedness, housed in the University of Mississippi School of Engineering, are available to discuss earthquakes, disaster planning, damage mitigation techniques and other aspects of disaster preparedness.

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Northern Arizona University's Dr. David S. Brumbaugh, Director of the Arizona Earthquake Information Center, is available for comment about the earthquake in Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 29, 2008.

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The following faculty members from The George Washington University are available to comment on earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters.

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Aftershocks always occur, Elnashai says, and they may continue for a few days after such a relatively low-magnitude earthquake. Usually, with some exceptions, aftershocks are one magnitude unit below the main event.

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New calculations show that Utah's deadly Crandall Canyon mine collapse "“ which registered as a magnitude-3.9 earthquake "“ began near where miners were excavating coal and quickly grew to a 50-acre cave-in, University of Utah seismologists say in a report. They estimated the size of the collapse is about four times larger than was thought shortly after the time of the Aug. 6, 2007, disaster.

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Until 1992, when California's magnitude-7.3 Landers earthquake set off small jolts as far away as Yellowstone National Park, scientists did not believe large earthquakes sparked smaller tremors at distant locations. Now, a definitive study shows large earthquakes routinely trigger smaller jolts worldwide, including on the opposite side of the planet and in areas not prone to quakes.

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Two minor earthquakes that rocked central Missouri this spring demonstrate the importance of earthquake preparedness in the region. Preparation for a significant quake along the New Madrid Fault is the subject of a conference to be held at Missouri University of Science and Technology this summer.

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A professor of geosciences arrives in China 40 minutes before killer quake, watching Three Gorges Dam.

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As Midwesterners learn this morning about today's earthquake in Illinois, Missouri S&T's David Rogers is available to discuss why Midwest earthquakes pack a more powerful punch than California quakes. Please let us know how we may assist with any earthquake-related story.

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Simulation may help big cities develop early warning systems.

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The world's first seismic testing apparatus for nonstructural components performed exactly as designed last Friday at the University at Buffalo and MCEER, providing engineers with the first realistic, experimental method of simulating and evaluating how earthquakes damage building equipment, contents and components.

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To better protect critical buildings and their occupants during a temblor, engineers at the University at Buffalo will subject a life-sized, two-story replica of a fully equipped hospital room to full-scale earthquake vibrations during a demonstration to be held at 3 p.m. on Friday, October 12 on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

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The Los Angeles basin appears to be in a seismic "lull," while the Mojave Desert is experiencing more and bigger earthquakes, according to a study in the September issue of Geology. The study suggests that seismic activity alternates between the two regions, and that seismic hazard models assuming random quake activity may need to be updated.

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) more than 15 million service units of computer processing time on supercomputers nationwide.

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The University of Utah Seismograph Stations recorded a magnitude-1.6 seismic event at the time of a Thursday, Aug. 16 "bump" that killed and injured rescuers at a Utah coal mine where six miners were trapped by an Aug. 6 collapse.

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Dr. Brian Tucker, founder and president of GeoHazards International, serves as an expert resource on earthquake safety; earthquake risk assessment and disaster potential; global repercussions of earthquake disasters in developing counties; and the growing urban earthquake risk in the 21st century.

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Earthquake simulator for homes, ultrasounds assess quakes, jelly earthquake models from the American Institute of Physics.

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Heat loss from Earth's interior varies greatly with time and depends on size and number of plates, says PNAS study.

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Tremors rippled the landscape of Vancouver Island, the westernmost part of British Columbia, during a major Alaskan earthquake in 2002, and geoscientists at the University of Washington have found clear evidence that the two events were related.

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Many earthquakes in the deep ocean are much smaller in magnitude than expected. Geophysicists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have found new evidence that the fragmented structure of seafloor faults, along with previously unrecognized volcanic activity, may be dampening the effects of these quakes.

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Somewhere in Southern California a large earthquake strikes without warning, and the news media and the public clamor for information about the temblor -- Where was the epicenter? How large was the quake? What areas did it impact? A picture is worth a thousand words "“ or numbers "“ and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego is helping to provide the answers.

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A sheet of molten rock roughly 10 miles thick spreads underneath much of the American Southwest, some 250 miles below Tucson, Ariz. From the surface, you can't see it, smell it or feel it. But geophysicists detected the molten layer with a comparatively new and overlooked technique for exploring the deep Earth that uses magnetic eruptions on the sun.