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Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Earthquake Jostles Iran After an evening of precursory tremors, a magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck western Iran today.
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Bolivian Earthquake Strikes Deep A magnitude-6.9 earthquake rumbled through Bolivia and northern Chile yesterday. No immediate deaths or damage were reported, although people evacuated their homes.
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Earthquake Rocks East Africa The East African Rift Zone experienced a damaging magnitude-7.4 earthquake Thursday in Mozambique, centered about 215 kilometers southwest of Beira.
Geotimes October 2004 Megan Sever	Deadly quakes shake Japan This weekend marks the deadliest spate of quakes in Japan since the 1995 Kobe quake, which killed more than 6,000 people.
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Earthquake Shakes East Africa A magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook the Lake Tanganyika region in Africa today.
Geotimes June 2005 Megan Sever	Quake Shakes Chile A magnitude-7.8 temblor rocked northern Chile and was felt throughout parts of Peru and Bolivia, including in the capital city of La Paz, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The quake was centered in the remote and mostly unpopulated northern Andes region of Tarapaca.
Geotimes March 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Deadly Quake Shakes Sumatra A shallow, magnitude-6.4 temblor shook Sumatra, killing at least 70 people.
Geotimes April 2004 Megan Sever	Powerful earthquake strikes Afghanistan At 1:54 a.m. local time today (April 6, 2004), a magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck the eastern province of Afghanistan.
Geotimes May 2004 Naomi Lubick	New New Madrid Findings New research has moved a historical earthquake off the New Madrid faults, possibly changing the hazard conditions for the region and across the eastern United States.
Geotimes August 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Earthquake Shakes Japanese Coast The shaking originated 52.7 kilometers below sea level, off the eastern Japanese coast, about 95 kilometers east of Honshu and 350 kilometers northeast of Tokyo.
Geotimes February 2004	Earthquake rocks Morocco At 2:27 a.m. local time today, a magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck the northern coast of Morocco. Preliminary reports suggest at least 300 people have died and many more have been injured, according to the Associated Press.
Geotimes December 2004 Megan Sever	Devastation in the Indian Ocean A magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Sunday morning, followed by dozens of powerful aftershocks and large tsunamis that reached as far as the east coast of Africa, some 4,800 kilometers away.
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Magnitude-8.7 Earthquake Hits Sumatra, Small Tsunami Wave Detected An earthquake that was quite close the site of December's catastrophic quake has prompted warning bulletins from NOAA's Pacific Tsunami Warning system suggesting the evacuation of coastlines within 1,000 kilometers of the epicenter.
Geotimes May 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Earthquake Sends Tonga Trembling Strong shaking awoke residents of Tonga when a magnitude-7.9 earthquake rocked the region today. Although Tonga is seismically active, seismologists say that such a large-magnitude event is unusual for the region.
Geotimes July 2004 Jay Chapman	Earthquake Rattles Tibet Early Monday morning, an earthquake shook the sparsely populated Gangdise Mountains in Tibet.
Geotimes June 2005 Naomi Lubick	California Earthquake Spawns Tsunami Worry The epicenter of a magnitude-7.2 earthquake that struck off northern California set off a tsunami warning for the entire West Coast, leading to an evacuation from Crescent City, Calif.
Geotimes October 2005 Naomi Lubick	Kashmir Earthquake A magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Pakistan, killing more than 20,000 people. Aftershocks followed, including one magnitude 6.2 and many larger than magnitude 5. The region is extremely tectonically active.
Geotimes October 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Strong Earthquake Shakes up Hawaii A magnitude-6.7 earthquake rumbled through the island chain of Hawaii, originating near Hawaii island, known as the "Big Island," according to the USGS. An aftershock with a magnitude of 6.0 followed seven minutes later.
Geotimes February 2005 Laura Stafford	Earthquake Rattles Iran A magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck central Iran early on the morning of Feb. 22, killing almost 400 people, injuring many more and devastating the mountainous region.
Geotimes November 2004 Laura Stafford	Earthquake strikes Indonesia again A magnitude-7.2 earthquake that struck Papua, Indonesia, was followed by multiple aftershocks, one of which registered magnitude-6.1. The main pulse and the aftershocks resulted in 19 deaths, more than 180 people reported injured and at least 300 buildings destroyed.
Geotimes June 2005 Naomi Lubick	California Earthquake Roundup Several significant earthquakes have struck California this week, ranging from 4.9 to 7.2 in magnitude, with two off the coast of Northern California and two in the Los Angeles basin. Scientists say that they are mostly unrelated.
Geotimes June 2004 Megan Sever	Midwest Shaking An earthquake rattled northwestern Illinois and points across the Midwest this morning Monday, June 28 at about 1:10 a.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Geotimes November 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Tsunami Risk High in Myanmar Once thought to be relatively seismically quiet, the northern part of the Bay of Bengal may instead be prone to giant earthquakes that could spawn tsunamis, with potentially devastating consequences for the bay's densely populated coasts, according to a new study.
Popular Mechanics July 30, 2008 Erik Sofge	L.A. Quake Was Minor, but Is America Ready for the Big One? The quake preparedness of Los Angeles was put to the test yesterday, but only barely.
Geotimes November 2006 Megan Sever	Earthquakes, Tsunamis Strike Japan A magnitude-8.3 earthquake struck off the Kuril Islands between Japan and Russia, followed by a series of strong aftershocks, at least four of which were above magnitude 6.0, according to the USGS.
Geotimes June 2004 Naomi Lubick	Super-Size Quake California fell into the sea during a television miniseries aired by NBC. In addition to the other faulty geologic premises of the melodrama, one elemental error is the size of the earthquake that spawned the miniseries' disasters.
Geotimes September 2004 Megan Sever	Quake strikes Central California The U.S. Geological Survey received more than 9,000 reports from people who felt the quake, from Sacramento to Los Angeles.
Geotimes August 2003 Naomi Lubick	Fast earthquakes break speed limit Some earthquakes may move faster than seismologists once thought possible. A new study published in the Aug. 8 Science shows the most convincing data yet that a large earthquake can travel down a fault at velocities that surpass theoretical limits.
Geotimes December 2003 Naomi Lubick	San Simeon Earthquake Seismologists have tentatively pegged the source of December 22's 6.5-magnitude earthquake that destroyed the landmark building in the town of Paso Robles and killed at least two people.
Geotimes March 2004 Mark Zoback	Earthquake Prediction and the Developing World The toll from the Iranian earthquake in December -- at least 30,000 dead and an estimated 40,000 homeless in just a few seconds -- is difficult to comprehend. Unfortunately, we can predict with reasonable certainty that sometime in the next few years, in a country with buildings unprepared to withstand disaster, a catastrophic quake will happen again
Geotimes March 2007 Carolyn Gramling	New Madrid Fault Dying? A series of devastating earthquakes that altered the course of the Mississippi River in the early 19th century may have been among the last gasps of an old, dying fault system, a controversial new study suggests.
Geotimes April 2006	This Month in History... April 18, 1906: The Great Earthquake Destroys San Francisco Those few individuals who were involved in the relatively new science of seismology quickly journeyed to San Francisco that long ago April to see for themselves the effects of the disaster, to record their observations in scientific terms, and to hypothesize on its causes.
Geotimes December 2003 Naomi Lubick	Cascading earthquakes in L.A. A new understanding of the fault architecture underlying the Los Angeles basin that takes into account the effects of cascading tremors along adjacent faults has led seismologists to reconsider the seismic threats to the Los Angeles metropolis.
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick	Tsunami Devastates Asia Geoscientists won't know exactly what happened in the Indian Ocean event until they can get into the field.
Geotimes April 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	Shaking in the South This morning, a magnitude-4.9 earthquake struck just east of Fort Payne, Ala. Felt from North Carolina to Mississippi, the quake awoke confused southerners from their sleep just before 5:00 a.m.
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Large Quake, Small Tsunami for Japan A large earthquake several hundred kilometers offshore Japan triggered a tsunami warning and a subsequent small tsunami. Three or four large events have occurred on this subduction fault over the past several centuries, as the Pacific plate slowly presses westward under Japan.
Geotimes November 2004 Megan Sever	Powerful earthquake strikes Indonesia On Friday morning at 5:26 a.m. local time, a magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck the eastern Indonesian island of Kepulauan Alor, according to preliminary reports from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Popular Mechanics May 13, 2008 Erik Sofge	3 Frontiers in Earthquake Tech to Aid China--and Help the U.S. Can a network of GPS sensors store enough data online to scout the Bay Area's looming quake? And could the rig work in the Chinese countryside?
Geotimes December 2005 David Applegate	A Year of Living Dangerously Recent destructive events are reminders of our society's growing vulnerability to natural disasters as more people move into harm's way. Scientists seeking to understand the underlying geologic systems have an obligation to learn more.
Geotimes February 2004 Naomi Lubick	Irian Jaya quakes Several large earthquakes have slammed Papua, the easternmost part of Indonesia formerly known as Irian Jaya, over the past two days. Immediate reports of the dead and injured are in the tens, with the latest estimate from the Associated Press at 26 people killed.
Insurance & Technology January 21, 2010 Anthony O'Donnell	Catastrophe Risk Models Show January 12 Haiti Quake Presages Future Caribbean Earthquakes This time the insurance industry responded with charity, but the next Caribbean earthquake could require a massive claims response, given the region's seismic hazard.
Geotimes January 2006 Naomi Lubick	Seismic Warnings Researchers suggest that the first few seconds of an earthquake have the potential to reveal the final size that an earthquake will grow to be -- with implications for how earthquakes physically unfold.
National Defense May 2009 Stew Magnuson	For the UAE, Iran Is Both Enemy and Trading Partner As the United Arab Emirates spends billions to defend itself against a perceived Iranian threat, it also enjoys a robust trading relationship with its potential foe.
Geotimes September 2004 Naomi Lubick	Lucy Jones: The Calm After the Quake Now a leading earthquake scientist, Lucy Jones is the voice of seismology for Southern California, and her new position as chair of the California Seismic Safety Commission has the potential to pump up the volume of her message.
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Shift in Chile's Seismic History New research documenting tsunami deposits in the Nazca plate region is resetting the seismic clock.
Geotimes July 2003 Greg Peterson	Quake protection in the heartland A new building code based on a USGS map of earthquake risk suggests that buildings within the New Madrid zone -- which stretches from just west of Memphis, Tenn., to southern Illinois -- should meet the same seismic standards as those in California.
Geotimes November 2006 Rod Combellick	Building a Natural Gas Pipeline Through Earthquake Country With proposals now being considered to build a natural gas pipeline, it is ever-important to understand the seismic hazards along potential routes, so that the pipeline and its spurs can be properly designed and managed for seismic safety.
National Defense May 2009 Stew Magnuson	Iranian Threat Spurs Gulf Nations to Upgrade Defenses When it comes to air-and-missile defense, the United Arab Emirates is sparing no expense to guard the nation against a looming Iranian threat. And it has the cash to do so.
Geotimes October 2003 Josh Chamot	Earthquake warning tools The ability to forecast a seismic event has been an elusive goal, but researchers are accepting the challenge and are using recent advances in seismic and computational technology to attempt to decipher Earth's subtle clues.
Geotimes December 2003	Unnecessary devastation in Iran Residents in California have come to expect that their buildings will survive an earthquake. In that light, the extent of the damage in Iran is horrific. Increasingly, in less developed countries with skyrocketing urban centers, untrustworthy construction has led to high numbers of deaths.