Rapid report of the March 28, 2025 Mw 7.9 Myanmar earthquake
Available online 22 May 2025
On 28 March 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...
Leveraging the DeepSeek large model: A framework for AI-assisted disaster prevention, mitigation, and emergency response systems
Available online 1 April 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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Recorded responses of Four Tall buildings in South China to the M 7.9 Myanmar Earthquake on March 28, 2025
Available online 20 May 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...
Mainshock rupture properties, aftershock activities and remotely triggered seismicity associated with the 2025 Mw7.7 Sagaing fault earthquake in Myanmar
Available online 15 August 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Coseismic deformation and seismogenic structure of the 2024 Hualien Earthquake measured by InSAR and GNSS
January 2025
On April 3, 2024, an M7.3 earthquake occurred in the offshore area of Hualien County, Taiwan, China. The seismogenic structure at the epicentral location was highly complex, and studying this earthquake...
Estimating the final fatalities using early reported death count from the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, MS 8.0–7.9 earthquake doublet and revising the estimates over time
April 2025
Earthquakes can cause significant damage and loss of life, necessitating immediate assessment of the resulting fatalities. Rapid assessment and timely revision of fatality estimates are crucial for...
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,...
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...
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...
The representative scientific results of the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite
January 2025
The China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES-01) launched on February 2, 2018, has been steadily operating in orbit for more than six years, exceeding its designed five-year lifespan expectation....
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...
IonKit-NH: A MATLAB-based toolkit for ionospheric detection of earthquake, tsunami and volcanic eruption
April 2025
In recent years, GNSS-derived total electron content (TEC) measurements have emerged as an effective method for detecting natural hazards through their ionospheric manifestations. Seismo-atmospheric...
Rapid rupture characterization for the 2023 MS 6.2 Jishishan earthquake
April 2024
On December 18, 2023, the MS 6.2 Jishishan earthquake occurred in the northeastern region of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, causing heavy casualties and property damage in Gansu and Qinghai Provinces....
Frontiers in Chinese seismology: Synthesizing innovations from the 18th Seismological Society of China Conference (SSC 2023)
April 2025
The 18th Academic Conference of the Seismological Society of China was held in Guiyang, China, on August 7, 2023, fostering academic exchanges on the latest advancements in earthquake science. The conference...
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...
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...
