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The Philippines' current seismic design framework, grounded in outdated uniform hazard approaches, fails to ensure consistent structural safety due to regional variations in seismic risk and structural...
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...
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...
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...
Preliminary slip distribution of the July 29, 2025 MW 8.8 Kamchatka, Russia earthquake
Available online 28 October 2025
The MW 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula is one of the top ten largest earthquakes worldwide since 1900. This event occurred in a tectonically active Kurile–Kamchatka subduction...
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...
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...
GNSS Constraints on the Jakarta Fault, Indonesia: Resolving Slip Rate and Seismic Hazard Potential
Available online 17 October 2025
The characteristics of the active faults in the region around the megacity of Jakarta are poorly understood. This study investigates slip rate of the Jakarta Fault using new GNSS data obtained from...
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...
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....
A spatial forecast of some MW≥6.5 earthquakes in California and Nevada
July 2025
This paper presents a prospective forecast of the locations of the next MW ≥ 6.5 earthquakes in California and Nevada based on the locations and rates of occurrence of M ≥ 4.0 earthquakes during...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Rapid report of seismic damage and consequence analysis in the 2025 M 6.8 Dingri earthquake
October 2025
On January 7, 2025, a M 6.8 earthquake occurred at Dingri County, Shigatse City, Xizang Autonomous Region, which is the most largest earthquake in this region in the most recent five years. The maximum...
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...
Site classification methodology using support vector machine: A study
October 2024
The site effect is a crucial factor when analyzing seismic risk and establishing ground motion attenuation relationships. A number of countries have introduced building site classification into earthquake-resistant...
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....
Catalog of focal mechanism solutions for the Sichuan and Yunnan region from 2012 to 2022 using the community velocity model of Southwest China
October 2024
The focal mechanism solution is one of the important focal parameters for exploring fault activity and studying regional stress distribution and it has a wide range of applications. The geological structure...
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...
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)...
Rapid determination of source parameters of the M6.2 Jishishan earthquake in Gansu Province and its application in emergency response
October 2024
In this study, we swiftly determined the focal parameters (focal mechanism, seismic imaging process, magnitude) of the Jishishan earthquake, leveraging a solved fault model to assess the intensity field...
