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2019
- Oct 23, 2019: Extremely Useful – But Not a Perfect System
- Oct 17, 2019: Earthquake Early Warning is Finally Here
- Aug 17, 2019: Today in Earthquake History: Hebgen Lake, 1959
- Jul 10, 2019: It Worked ... and It Did Not!
- Jul 6, 2019: Not All is Quiet at the Eastern Front
- Apr 25, 2019: Rumbles on the Red Planet
- Mar 26, 2019: Today in Earthquake History: Owens Valley 1872
- Mar 8, 2019: How Earthquakes Break the Speed Limit
- Feb 14, 2019: How Storms Shake The Ground
2018
- Dec 3, 2018: A Quake Inside a Diving Plate
- Oct 1, 2018: A Deadly Quake and a Tsunami Mystery
- Aug 20, 2018: Deep and Strong
- Aug 13, 2018: Earthquakes on Top of the World
- Aug 6, 2018: Destruction in the Land of Earthquakes and Volcanoes
- Jun 19, 2018: When Creep becomes Unsteady
- May 7, 2018: A Slow Emergency and a Sudden Slump
- May 3, 2018: Quakes on Mars?
- Apr 30, 2018: Does the East Bay Swarm Again?
- Apr 17, 2018: Can We Outsmart a Disaster?
- Apr 11, 2018: What a Difference 150 Years Make
- Mar 8, 2018: Today in Earthquake History: Oldest Seismogram 1881
- Feb 26, 2018: The Strongest Quake in a Remote Mountain Range
- Jan 26, 2018: Tiny Changes Make a Great New Tool
- Jan 4, 2018: Danger Lurking under the East Bay
2017
- Sep 20, 2017: A Shock WIthout Aftershocks
- Sep 8, 2017: A Rare Quake Made Even Rarer
- Sep 3, 2017: North Korea's Most Powerful Bomb
- Aug 15, 2017: Today in Earthquake History: Assam 1950
- Jun 21, 2017: Seismic Dry Spell Finally Broken
- Jun 15, 2017: Earthquakes and the Rainfall Cycle
- May 4, 2017: The Mystery about Earthquake Fissures
- Apr 25, 2017: Today in Earthquake History: Cape Mendocino 1992
- Apr 13, 2017: Feeling Quakes under Water
- Apr 3, 2017: The Quake of the Kalahari
- Feb 16, 2017: Oroville Dam Makes its own Earthquakes
- Feb 9, 2017: Today in Earthquake History: San Fernando 1971
2016
- Dec 28, 2016: Of Ghost Towns and Explosions
- Dec 28, 2016: Of Ghost Towns and Explosions
- Dec 8, 2016: Temblors where Three Plates Meet
- Nov 23, 2016: An Earthquake of Two Flavors
- Nov 18, 2016: The Missing Link
- Nov 13, 2016: Predicting Presidents and Not Earthquakes
- Oct 30, 2016: Falling Like Dominoes
- Sep 9, 2016: A Diplomatically Subdued Headline
- Sep 3, 2016: Earthquake Hazard in the Midwest
- Aug 26, 2016: No Culture of Prevention
- Aug 24, 2016: Another Tragedy in the Heart of Italy
- Aug 11, 2016: A Stepping Stone to the Pacific Plate
- Jul 21, 2016: Hybrid Faults and Earthquake Clusters
- Jul 8, 2016: An Icon of Plate Tectonics - Erased for Now
- May 17, 2016: Rumbling Under the Volcanoes
- Apr 18, 2016: Today in Earthquake History: San Francisco 1906
- Apr 17, 2016: Burned by the Ring of Fire
- Apr 16, 2016: Shaking Down the Middle
- Feb 25, 2016: Deep Earthquakes and the King
- Feb 11, 2016: Seismic Sensors by the Million
- Feb 7, 2016: Suspicious Collapse of Twin Towers
- Jan 28, 2016: Temblors and Politics
- Jan 6, 2016: A Nuke, Not a Quake
2015
- Nov 25, 2015: Less Damage - But Widely Felt
- Oct 26, 2015: Prelude to the Big One?
- Oct 13, 2015: Weak Stresses - Strong Earthquakes
- Sep 2, 2015: A Plume, a Blob, a Volcano
- Jun 16, 2015: The Quake that Moved Mt. Everest
- May 30, 2015: It Doesn't Get Deeper Than That
- May 22, 2015: Today in Earthquake History: Chile 1960
- May 12, 2015: Segment by Segment
- May 8, 2015: It's Swarming Under Concord
- Apr 29, 2015: How to Read a Seismogram - Part III
- Apr 25, 2015: The Quake that Shook Mt. Everest
- Apr 22, 2015: Fracking, Injecting and Quakes
- Apr 7, 2015: Where the Hazard is Highest
- Mar 27, 2015: Today in Earthquake History: Alaska 1964
- Mar 16, 2015: Forecast - Not Prediction
- Mar 11, 2015: It's Probable, So Be Prepared
- Jan 5, 2015: Rock and Roll in the Gem State
2014
2013
2012
- Oct 23, 2012: Sent to Jail for Being Too Flippant
- Oct 12, 2012: Shaken But Not Stirred
- Oct 2, 2012: Shaking Expected in 30 Seconds
- Sep 28, 2012: Slow Trains and Earthquakes
- Aug 13, 2012: Double Shaker in Iran
- Apr 23, 2012: Meteors on Seismograms
- Apr 16, 2012: A Megaquake becomes a Megapuzzle
- Apr 11, 2012: Earthquakes California Style - and no Tsunamis
- Mar 20, 2012: No Mulligans here: The next Big One will strike
- Mar 5, 2012: Similar but very different
- Feb 13, 2012: A Reminder of a Lurking Hazard
- Jan 6, 2012: Today in Earthquake History: Frankfurt 1912
- Jan 1, 2012: How to Read a Seismogram - Part II
2011
- Dec 21, 2011: A Day in Earthquake History: New Madrid 1811 - Part II
- Dec 15, 2011: Today in Earthquake History: New Madrid 1811 – Part I
- Dec 11, 2011: Filling the Seismic Gap
- Nov 9, 2011: Ringing Like A Bell - Sounding Like a Thud
- Nov 6, 2011: What's Shaking in Oklahoma?
- Oct 24, 2011: Destruction in East Anatolia
- Oct 20, 2011: Deep under Berkeley
- Mar 16, 2011: A Tectonic Drag Race
- Mar 14, 2011: Waves as Fast As A Jet Plane
- Mar 11, 2011: Strongest Earthquake in Japan
2010
- Jul 19, 2010: A Race Across the Pacific Ocean
- May 18, 2010: Today in Earthquake History: Mount St. Helens 1980
- May 14, 2010: Big Waves in Small Ponds
- Apr 17, 2010: Today in Earthquake History: Japan/Potsdam 1889
- Apr 13, 2010: An Enigma Deep Beneath Spain
- Apr 9, 2010: Earthquake Turned Highway into Staircase
- Apr 5, 2010: Opening a Tectonic Zipper
- Mar 9, 2010: Displaced By More Than 10 Feet
- Mar 1, 2010: Giant Temblor In Chile
- Jan 27, 2010: Extreme Damage That Didn't Have To Be
- Jan 15, 2010: Tectonics Seen From Space
- Jan 13, 2010: Devastation on Hispaniola
- Jan 10, 2010: Cape Mendocino's Seismic Energy
- Jan 7, 2010: Did You Feel It?
2009
- Oct 16, 2009: Today in Earthquake History: Loma Prieta 1989
- Oct 13, 2009: The Great California Shakeout
- Oct 5, 2009: Triple Shock in Owens Valley
- Sep 30, 2009: Tsunami in Samoa - Earthquake in Sumatra
- Jul 27, 2009: Lord Rayleigh and the Love Waves
- Jul 20, 2009: Quakes on the Moon
- Jul 15, 2009: Waves Across a Pond
- May 25, 2009: Of Nuclear Bombs and Earthquakes
- May 12, 2009: Today in Earthquake History: Sichuan 2008
- Apr 17, 2009: Another Kind of Earthquake Wave
- Apr 6, 2009: Tragedy in the Heart Of Italy
- Mar 30, 2009: Bursting Rocks and Trembling Earth
- Mar 25, 2009: (Anxiously) Waiting for the Big One
- Mar 10, 2009: An Umbilical From The Abyss
- Mar 6, 2009: Technological Marvels
- Feb 28, 2009: Catching Seismic Waves Underwater
- Feb 4, 2009: A Look Beneath the Old Continent
- Jan 23, 2009: Earthquakes in Clusters
- Jan 17, 2009: Today in Earthquake History: Northridge 1994
- Jan 14, 2009: How to Read a Seismogram
- Jan 9, 2009: Tidings from afar in the trembling rocks
- Jan 5, 2009: Quakes Under the Bird's Head
2008
- Dec 19, 2008: Of Tunnels and Earthquakes - Part II
- Dec 15, 2008: Of Tunnels and Earthquakes: Part I
- Dec 9, 2008: Beware: Fault Xing
- Dec 5, 2008: Below zero: The 'bottom' of the Richter scale
- Dec 1, 2008: Of Piccolos and Tubas
- Nov 24, 2008: Earthquakes By Pure Coincidence
- Nov 18, 2008: Charles Richter and His Scale
- Nov 14, 2008: Tsunami Warning System for the Indian Ocean
- Nov 10, 2008: The Biggest Earthquake Drill Ever
- Nov 10, 2008: The Biggest Earthquake Drill Ever
- Nov 4, 2008: Of Mud Pots and the End of the San Andreas Fault
- Nov 1, 2008: Today in Earthquake History: Lisbon 1755
- Oct 27, 2008: Where the San Andreas Fault Ends
- Oct 21, 2008: Today in Earthquake History: Hayward 1868
- Oct 17, 2008: Of Satellites and Fingernails
- Oct 14, 2008: The Hayward Fault
- Oct 10, 2008: Earthquake Probabilities in the Bay Area
- Oct 7, 2008: Where earthquakes occur in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Oct 3, 2008: Where earthquakes occur in California
- Sep 29, 2008: Where Earthquakes Occur
- Sep 24, 2008: When the Ground Gives Way
- Sep 19, 2008: Today in Earthquake History: Mexico City 1985
- Sep 14, 2008: How Many Earthquakes Are There
- Sep 10, 2008: P-waves and S-waves - which are faster?
- Sep 5, 2008: Today's temblor under Alamo, CA
- Sep 5, 2008: M 4.0 Near Alamo, CA
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