I’m sitting on the Shinkansen, whisking across the Japanese countryside at warp speed. The hum of the high-speed engines is calming; if these things can barrel along under mountain and over bay, then ...

The Japanese earthquake and tsunami remind us that we exist in geologic time and in a world where catastrophic events beyond our predicting may occur. These events — and the growing specter of climate ...

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a grant of more than $750,000 to UC Santa Cruz seismologist Emily Brodsky. The grant funds Brodsky’s research to better understand the fault that ...

Dear Alex L, David, & Kevin, Hi this is XXXXX in Japan. As you all must have heard, the 5th largest earthquake in recorded history hit us on Friday, 2:30pm Japan Time. As Alex often says on TWiM, ...

More than two months after the Great Tohoku Earthquake of March 11, public and/or private volunteer activities have gathered steam and, thanks to those helpers, a number of people in the Tohoku region ...

The well-crafted space where Tohoku for the Future presented the products developed in the region. The invited visitors to walk around and discover these collaborations between artisans and designers.

Three papers piece together what happened during the March earthquake in Japan, and raise cautions about other subduction faults around the world. I already "knew" (i.e. had a feeling) that geology ...