When an earthquake rupturing along a fault hits a barrier, it creates a seismic signature called the “stopping phase.” ...

While analyzing strong-motion data close to fault lines, a group of researchers at Kyoto University noticed something unexpected: a negative phase in the waveforms, a pattern that did not conform to ...

The magnitude of an earthquake depends on how far a rupture travels along a fault line before it stops. For the first time, we have now directly observed how a large earthquake comes to a halt. By ...

Recently, while analyzing strong-motion data close to fault lines, a group of researchers at Kyoto University noticed ...