Predicting earthquakes has long been an unattainable fantasy. Factors like odd animal behaviors that have historically been thought to forebode earthquakes are not supported by empirical evidence. As ...

The Yellowstone Caldera, spanning Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, is among the most seismically active volcanic regions on Earth. A caldera forms when a volcano erupts, emptying the underlying magma ...

When talking about squeezing rocks together, Prof. Gregory McLaskey Ph.D ’05, civil engineering, gets a glimmer in his eyes. Using the world’s largest rock squeezing machine, McLaskey researches the ...

A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory used machine learning — an application of artificial intelligence — to detect the hidden signals that precede an earthquake. The findings at the Kīlauea ...

LOGAN, UTAH, U.S.—You can see dark clouds forming in the distance and prepare for inclement weather. Hurricane forecasters can pinpoint storms as they develop over oceans, track their movement and ...

Utah State University Geosciences faculty member Srisharan Shreedharan, right, prepares for an experiment with graduate students, from left, Kwabena Poku-Agyemang and Alejandro Aguilar, using a custom ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., July 18, 2019--Three teams who applied novel machine learning methods to successfully predict the timing of earthquakes from historic seismic data are splitting $50,000 in prize ...

Yellowstone, a popular tourist destination and namesake of an equally popular TV show, was the first-ever national park in the U.S. Bubbling beneath it – to this day – is one of Earth’s most ...