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 ...

Do earthquake hazard maps predict higher shaking than actually occurred? Research finds discrepancy between maps and shaking data is in conversion between them Date: May 1, 2024 Source ...

This assessment revealed that hazard maps for the U.S. (California), Japan, Italy, Nepal and France seemed to overpredict earthquake damage.

New map shows where damaging earthquakes are most likely to occur in US The research-based map is the first to display an updated, comprehensive National Seismic Hazard Model for all 50 states ...

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

GUERNSEY & NOBLE COUNTIES, Ohio — Ohio officials have confirmed that a recent series of small earthquakes in Southeast Ohio are tied to oil and gas activity in the region. The Ohio Department of ...

Ohio's recent earthquakes were minor — they were felt but did not cause major damage. For instance, the Noble County tremor on April 22 registered a 3.1 on the Richter Scale, which was the most ...