Monica Kohler, a Caltech senior research fellow, says the gadgets allow scientists to monitor seismic frequency changes in the building during a large earthquake, a signal that severe damage has ...

Caltech researchers have introduced a new seismic technology called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS). Using DAS, the method ...

New earthquake hazard maps show fault lines under Beverly Hills. By Rob Hayes. Thursday, January 25, 2018. ... a Caltech professor of seismological engineering.

Talk about being prepared. Lucy Jones stopped mid-sentence while discussing earthquakes and pulled out a vibrating beeper from her hip, like a gunslinger. “Just a three point in a mining area ...

Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables, already in place across California, can shake up the study of earthquakes. New research out of Caltech used a section of telecommunication fiber to sense ...

PASADENA – Researchers at Caltech who study earthquakes want to enlist Southern Californians with cell phones or computers to help them measure strong jolts in the region. A couple of years ago ...

Imagine repurposing underground fiber optic cables, typically used for delivering high-speed Internet to California residents, to detect and measure earthquakes. That is the focus of a recent resea… ...

The city has entered into a five-year partnership with Caltech, which will use an innovative new research field to collect mountains of data on earthquake activity for public safety applications.

NASA/JPL-Caltech-produced map of damage in and around Mexico City from the Sept. 19, 2017, magnitude 7.1 Raboso earthquake, based on ground and building surface changes detected by ESA satellites.

Caltech researchers introduce a new seismic technology called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to study earthquakes and Earth's interior.

Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables, already in place across California, can shake up the study of earthquakes. New research out of Caltech used a section of telecommunication fiber to sense ...