Ordinal severity supervision for building damage segmentation from UAV imagery: a case study of the 2023 Mw 6.8 Al Haouz earthquake, High Atlas, Morocco.
Available online 31 October 2026
Rapid structural damage assessment from UAV imagery following seismic events has emerged as an indispensable component of modern disaster response operations. Transformer-based semantic segmentation...
Discussion on the destructive effects and damage patterns of the January 7, 2025 Dingri Ms 6.8 earthquake
Available online 29 October 2026
The January 7, 2025 Ms 6.8 Dingri earthquake in southern Tibet was a shallow normal-faulting event that caused severe localized damage in the near-fault region. This study integrates multisource datasets,...
Seismic Hazard Analysis of Padang City, Indonesia, Based on Dynamic Site Response under the 2009 Padang Earthquake
Available online 29 October 2026
This study assesses seismic hazard levels in Padang City using site amplification analysis. A total of 103 investigation points were evaluated using one-dimensional nonlinear site response analysis,...
The conditional role of the free surface in cascading rupture: Insights from dynamic rupture simulations
Available online 27 October 2026
Multi-fault cascading ruptures occur frequently in major earthquakes, exhibit complicated rupture behavior and cause severe seismic disasters. However, the role of free surface in cascading rupture...
Transboundary cryospheric hazard governance and forward-looking pathways: insights from the 2026 Gyirong “8·26” disaster chain
Available online 27 October 2026
On 26 August 2026 an ice–rock avalanche on the Nepali side evolved into a debris flow and struck China’s Gyirong Port, 22 km away, within minutes. It raises two questions: what the transboundary setting...
Root–Soil Mechanical Interactions in a Subalpine Abies fabri Forest (SW China)
Available online 23 October 2026
Soil–root mechanical interaction governs the resistance of forested slopes to shallow landslides, yet species-specific reinforcement data for Abies fabri (Faber’s fir hereafter A. fabri), a dominant...
Multiscale Structure of Forecast-Relevant Information in Earthquake Catalogs
Available online 22 October 2026
High-resolution earthquake catalogs describe seismicity across multiple temporal scales, but it remains unclear which catalog information is consistently useful across forecast horizons and learning...
Preliminary report on seismic intensity of the 2026 MW 7.7 Flores, Indonesia earthquake
Available online 13 October 2026
This study investigates the rupture process of the 2026 MW 7.7 Flores, Indonesia earthquake using multi-frequency back-projection of teleseismic P waves recorded by an Australian seismic array, and...
Source rupture characteristics of the 2026 MW 5.2 extremely shallow double earthquakes in Liuzhou, Guangxi, China
Available online 5 October 2026
Intraplate extremely shallow earthquakes, with hypocenters very close to the ground surface, often generate intense destructive ground motion or surface ruptures, posing immediate and severe threats...
Iterative inversion in body-wave travel-time tomography requires consistency between reference and initial velocity models
Available online 20 September 2026
This study addresses a long-overlooked yet important issue in body-wave travel-time tomography: whether the reference velocity model used for travel-time measurements should be consistent with the initial...
Potential Geodynamic Drivers of Shallow Crustal Normal-Faulting Earthquakes in the Sichuan-Yunnan Block: Insights from the 2025 Mw 5.5 Xinlong County Earthquake
Available online 16 September 2026
The Sichuan-Yunnan Block in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau is bounded by major strike-slip fault systems and undergoes clockwise rotation and southeastward extrusion. A series of shallow moderate-sized...
Refined Seismicity Patterns in Sumatra from High-Resolution Earthquake Relocation Enabled by an Expanded Seismic Network
Available online 8 September 2026
The recent expansion of the broadband seismic network operated by the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) across Sumatra provides improved spatial coverage and an opportunity...
ANALYSIS OF THE COSEISMIC SLIP BEHAVIOR FOR THE MW = 8.8 2025 KAMCHATKA PENINSULA (RUSSIA) EARTHQUAKE FROM SATELLITE GOCE VERTICAL GRAVITY GRADIENT
Available online 3 September 2026
The southern Kamchatka Peninsula lies along the southeastern margin of the Okhotsk microplate; a region identified with high seismic potential. This segment of the megathrust hosted the historic Great...
Seismic Fragility Assessment and Influencing Factors of Buried Oil Pipelines
Available online 3 September 2026
The seismic vulnerability of buried pipelines, affected by multiple factors with significant variations under different conditions, poses challenges for accurate assessment due to differing model applicability...
On the Investigation of Pn velocity and anisotropy in the uppermost mantle beneath the Qingzang Plateau with machine-learning based phase picking
July 2026
The Pn-wave travels through the uppermost mantle, carrying abundant information about crust-mantle interaction. Due to its weak amplitude, identifying and picking Pn-wave is challenging. This study...
Advances and challenges in the study of ULF geomagnetic anomalies for earthquake precursors: A four-decade critical literature review
July 2026
Since the late 1930s, unusual variations in Earth's magnetic field prior to earthquakes have been reported. The search for frequency ranges that may hold predictive significance has highlighted ultra-low...
Pre-seismic tilt rate variations and transient disturbances along the Longmenshan Fault Zone: Insights from continuous ground tilt data prior to the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake
July 2026
In this study, we investigated the pre- and post-earthquake deformation characteristics of the Longmenshan Fault Zone using long-term ground tilt data from three monitoring stations near the fault zone...
Integration of PSHA and site response analysis for quantifying liquefaction-induced ground settlements using in-situ testing
July 2026
Numerous past moderate-to-strong earthquakes have induced soil liquefaction, leading to severe structural damage in many locations worldwide, including in the Aceh Province of Indonesia. This study...
Foreshock behaviors and mainshock rupture properties associated with the 2025 MW 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake sequence
July 2026
The July 29, 2025 MW 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake ruptured the plate interface off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula along the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone and generated tsunamis across the Pacific...
Seismic catalog construction in Jiangxi by integrating seismometers and accelerometers
July 2026
The continuous waveform data from 27 seismometers and 58 accelerometers of the Jiangxi Seismic Network from February to April 2024 were used. The identification of accelerometer seismic phases was completed...
Rapid estimation of rupture directivity of the 2024 MW 7.4 Hualien earthquake in the East China Sea Taiwan, China
July 2026
Rapid estimation of rupture directivity for a large earthquake with regional seismic records is important for disaster assessment, geological analysis and earthquake early warning. However, there is...
Resolving the tsunamigenic source of the 2024 Mw 7.4 Hualien earthquake: Integrated tsunami-waveform inversion and InSAR constraints on complex multi-fault rupture
Available online 27 July 2026
On 3 April 2024, an Mw 7.4 earthquake struck offshore Hualien, eastern Taiwan Island, triggering a localized tsunami with a peak amplitude of 0.8 m at the Su’ao tide gauge. Despite the significant onshore...
China-Wide Fiber-Optic Seismology Network (CFOSN): Distributed Acoustic Sensing Observation of the 28 March 2025 Myanmar M 7.7 and M 6.7 Earthquake
Available online 24 July 2026
To investigate activity in the western Circum-Pacific seismic zone, we established the China-Wide Fiber-Optic Seismology Network (CFOSN). This network integrates 14 continuously operating Distributed...
Analysis and field survey on damage of buildings and infrastructures caused by 2026 M 6.3 Haixi earthquake
Available online 24 July 2026
The 2026 M 6.3 Haixi earthquake in Qinghai caused one death and eight injuries. Immediately after the event, the authors carried out a detailed field survey to investigate damage to buildings and infrastructure...
Theoretical and numerical study on seismic wave input for layered marine sites under oblique incidence of P-wave
Available online 17 July 2026
To address the complex challenges in seismic wave propagation modeling for coastal and offshore engineering sites, traditional analytical methods based on terrestrial site assumptions and vertical seismic...
