THE Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has turned over the liquefaction and tsunami hazard maps of ...

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Wednesday said local government units (LGUs) and the ...

Both help engineers design earthquake-resistant buildings by identifying areas more prone to stronger shaking. Hazard maps are shown for different time frames, known as return periods, which help ...

The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) urged the public Sunday, Dec. 22, to be on high alert and take immediate steps to prepare for potential tsunami threats amid a series of earthquakes ... hazard ...

Seismic Explorer ' is a service that allows you to filter earthquakes that have occurred around the world by magnitude and period and display them on a map. It is also possible to map earthquake ...

More From Newsweek Vault: What Is an Emergency Fund? USGS map of the earthquake and its aftershocks. The main magnitude 5.2 earthquake is marked in blue, and the most recent aftershock is marked ...

Scientists are creating the first data set that will systematically map local earthquake hazards across Metro Vancouver. The data being collected will form a “comprehensive, high calibre ...

Therefore, tough choices are required and decisions about how to allocate resources are often based on earthquake hazard maps to predict how much shaking to expect over the many years buildings ...

A research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking intensities. In analyzing the ...

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. At 5:59 p.m. Eastern on Friday, a light aftershock with a magnitude of 3 ...

Some 230 million people in the United States face the potential of damaging earthquakes in 100 years, according to the latest U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model, or NSHM. That’s about 40 million ...