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Latest Earthquakes

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View the latest earthquake events and information from the past 24 hours, 7 days, or 1 month.

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Earthquake science
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Featured Films and Shorts
Earth in the background with words "Part Two: Will it happen "here"?

National Preparedness Month Spotlight on Earthquakes [Part 2]

Featured Films and Shorts
Building crumbled. Text reads: Part Four: Heads Up! Something's Happening

National Preparedness Month Spotlight on Earthquakes [Part 4]

Featured Films and Shorts
Destroyed buildings in a city. Text reads: Part Three: Prepare for the Inevitable

National Preparedness Month Spotlight on Earthquakes [Part 3]

Featured Films and Shorts
Part Six: Resources to Keep You Safe

National Preparedness Month Spotlight on Earthquakes [Part 6]

Featured Films and Shorts
Video of Earth with a glowing crack through it.

National Preparedness Month Spotlight on Earthquakes [Part 1]

Featured Films and Shorts
People sitting at table. Text read: Part Five: Drop, Cover, and Hold on

National Preparedness Month Spotlight on Earthquakes [Part 5]

Project
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Fiber Optic Seismology for Earthquake Hazards Research, Monitoring and Early Warning

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Three-component nodal recordings of aftershocks from the 15 May 2020 Mw 6.5 Monte Cristo, Nevada earthquake

General
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22-36. Improving earthquake forecasting with machine learning

General
USGS

22-28. Investigating earthquake sequence evolution: underlying physics, statistical properties, and regional variations

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Quantifying site effects and their influence on earthquake source parameter estimations using a dense array in Oklahoma

General
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22-31. Constraining earthquake cycle processes, ground motion characteristics, and rupture extent from geologic shaking proxies and coastal sedimentary records in subduction zones

Featured Story
Map showing area where earthquake struck in Morocco, with epicenter in the Atlas Mountains near Marrakech and shaking further out, including north to Casablanca

Major earthquake strikes Oukaïmedene, Morocco

Illustrations
earthquakes: what you feel

Earthquakes: What You Feel

Research
San Andreas Fault and its various environments in the Southern California area

Earthquake Processes and Effects - Overview

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Fault Rupture Mapping of the 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, Earthquake Sequence from Satellite Data

Center News
Absolute versus relative earthquake locations associated with 2019 Ridgecrest, California, foreshock and aftershock sequence

Everything is Relative: Precise Earthquake Location

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Alerting the globe of consequential earthquakes

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Evaluating a prospective fault-based stress-transfer forecast for the M7.9 Wenchuan earthquake region 15 years later

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Learnings from rapid response efforts to remotely detect landslides triggered by the August 2021 Nippes earthquake and Tropical Storm Grace in Haiti

Research
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Southern California Earthquake Hazards

Center News
1975 earthquake damage just south of Mammoth Hot Springs on the Mammoth-Norris highway

Phones out and a toppled chimney? There’s much more to the story of the 1975 Yellowstone National Park Earthquake!

Software Release
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USGS Earthquake Hazard Toolbox: nshmp-apps

publication
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Fault roughness at seismogenic depths and links to earthquake behavior

Data Visualization
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The 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, Earthquake Sequence

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Remote survey of fragile geologic features for use as earthquake ground motion constraints, Oregon and Washington, USA

Posters
September Public Lecture Flyer, 2023

September Public Lecture Flyer, 2023

Center News
Spectrogram and waveform of a typical Volcano-Tectonic (VT) earthquake that occurred near Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park

Why do volcano observatories describe seismic activity so differently?

Research
Evansville Area

Evansville Area Earthquake Hazards Mapping Project

Presentations and Events
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Earthquake Activity in Turkey and Syria [Press Briefing]