Mainshock rupture properties, aftershock activities and remotely triggered seismicity associated with the 2025 Mw7.7 Sagaing fault earthquake in Myanmar
October 2025
A devastating Mw 7.7 earthquake struck near Mandalay, Myanmar, on March 28, 2025, causing extensive damage and casualties across Myanmar and neighboring regions. The 2025 event occurred in a well-recognized...
Advancements in remote sensing techniques for earthquake engineering: A review
July 2025
Remote sensing technologies play a vital role in our understanding of earthquakes and their impact on the Earth's surface. These technologies, including satellite imagery, aerial surveys, and advanced...
Risk-targeted seismic hazard model for the Philippines
Available online 25 July 2025
The Philippines' current seismic design framework, grounded in outdated uniform hazard approaches, fails to ensure consistent structural safety due to regional variations in seismic risk and structural...
Leveraging the DeepSeek large model: A framework for AI-assisted disaster prevention, mitigation, and emergency response systems
October 2025
We proposes an AI-assisted framework for integrated natural disaster prevention and emergency response, leveraging the DeepSeek large language model (LLM) to advance intelligent decision-making in geohazard...
Rapid report of the March 28, 2025 MW 7.9 Myanmar earthquake
October 2025
On March 28, 2025, a moment magnitude (MW) 7.9 earthquake struck Myanmar, marking it as the most powerful seismic event of the year. The earthquake occurred along the Sagaing Fault, a prominent right-lateral...
Physical mechanisms of earthquake nucleation and foreshocks: Cascade triggering, aseismic slip, or fluid flows?
April 2025
Earthquakes are caused by the rapid slip along seismogenic faults. Whether large or small, there is inevitably a certain nucleation process involved before the dynamic rupture. At the same time, significant...
Coulomb Stress Transfer from the 2025 Mw 7.7 Myanmar Earthquake to Active Faults in Southwestern Yunnan, China: Implications for Seismic Hazard
Available online 6 June 2025
On 28 March 2025, a strong Mw 7.7 earthquake struck the seismic gap in the central section of the Sagaing Fault in Myanmar, causing significant damage and casualties in Myanmar and neighboring countries....
Disaster analysis and lessons learned from the July 22, 2024, Ethiopian landslide
July 2025
Rainfall-induced landslides are often highly destructive. Reviewing and analyzing the causes, processes, impacts, and deficiencies in emergency response is critical for improving disaster prevention...
Research on Rainfall-Induced Landslide Susceptibility Prediction Considering Spatial Heterogeneity
Available online 9 July 2025
Existing landslide susceptibility prediction methods often fail to fully account for the spatial heterogeneity of environmental factors such as topography, soil, and vegetation, nor do they accurately...
The 2024 Mj 7.6 Noto Peninsula, Japan earthquake caused by the fluid flow in the crust
July 2024
On January 1, 2024 at 16:10:09 JST, an Mj 7.6 earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in the southern part of the Sea of Japan. This location has been experiencing an earthquake swarm for more than three...
Rapid report of seismic damage to hospitals in the 2023 Turkey earthquake sequences
October 2023
The seismic performance of medical systems is crucial for the seismic resilience of communities. The report summarizes the observed damage to twelve hospital buildings in the area affected by the MW...
The evolution process between the earthquake swarm beneath the Noto Peninsula, central Japan and the 2024 M 7.6 Noto Hanto earthquake sequence
January 2025
Several physical mechanisms of earthquake nucleation, such as pre-slip, cascade triggering, aseismic slip, and fluid-driven models, have been proposed. However, it is still not clear which model plays...
The Emerging Roles of 3D and 4D Geophysical and Geological Modelling in Evaluating Seismic Risks: A Critical Review
Available online 30 June 2025
Seismic hazard assessment (SHA) is crucial in mitigating the hazards associated with earthquakes, particularly in tectonically active regions. This study critically examines the emerging roles of 3D...
Under the surface: Pressure-induced planetary-scale waves, volcanic lightning, and gaseous clouds caused by the submarine eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano
July 2022
We present a narrative of the eruptive events culminating in the cataclysmic January 15, 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Volcano by synthesizing diverse preliminary seismic, volcanological,...
Tectonic geomorphology of Türkiye and its insights into the neotectonic deformation of the Anatolian Plate
January 2024
Quantitative geomorphic analyses are usually powerful in identifying active tectonics across global orogenic belts. Our present study will focus on the Anatolian Plate which hosts a lot of recent catastrophic...
The advance in obtaining fault slip rate of strike slip fault-A review
October 2021
Slip rate along the major active fault is an important parameter in the quantitative study of active tectonics. It is the average rate of fault slip during a certain period of time, reflecting the rate...
Research progress in geophysical exploration of the Antarctic ice sheet
July 2023
The Antarctic ice sheet is an important target of Antarctic research. Thickness and structure, including intraice and subice, are closely related to the mass balance of the ice sheet, and play an important...
Recorded responses of Four Tall buildings in South China to the M 7.9 Myanmar Earthquake on March 28, 2025
October 2025
This paper reports the recorded structural responses of four 170 m–320 m tall buildings in China to the mainshock of the M 7.9 Myanmar earthquake on March 28, 2025. The buildings are located approximately...
Seismic Performance of a High-rise Base-isolated RC Shear Wall Building on Near-Fault Deep Deposit
Available online 24 September 2025
The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake significantly accelerated the adoption of base isolation in seismic-prone regions in China. While traditionally used for short-period structures on stiff sites, base isolation...
Deriving focal mechanism solutions of small to moderate earthquakes in Sichuan, China via a deep learning method
July 2025
As one of the most seismically active regions, Sichuan basin is a key area of seismological studies in China. This study applies a neural network model with attention mechanisms, simultaneously picking...
Analysis of GAMIT/GLOBK in high-precision GNSS data processing for crustal deformation
July 2021
The advances in satellite navigation and positioning technology and the worldwide establishment of continuous-tracking stations have greatly promoted the development and application of the high-precision...
Reexamination confirming additional seismic evidence for the 12 May 2010 low-yield nuclear test
April 2025
This study examines event location and source discrimination for the May 12, 2010 possible nuclear event in North Korea, using seismic data recorded in the Dongbei Broadband Seismic Network in China....
Rapid report of the December 18, 2023 MS 6.2 Jishishan earthquake, Gansu, China
April 2024
On December 18, 2023, the Jishishan area in Gansu Province was jolted by a MS 6.2 earthquake, which is the most powerful seismic event that occurred throughout the year in China. The earthquake occurred...
High-resolution satellite imagery analysis of coseismic landslides and liquefaction induced by the 2024 MW 7.4 Hualien earthquake, Taiwan, China
July 2025
Rapidly obtaining spatial distribution maps of secondary disasters triggered by strong earthquakes is crucial for understanding the disaster-causing processes in the earthquake hazard chain and formulating...
Major methods of seismic anisotropy
July 2024
Seismic anisotropy reveals that seismic wave velocity, amplitude, and other physical properties show variations in different directions, which can be divided into lattice-preferred orientation (LPO)...