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Lake sediment cores in Guatemala reveal directional ground shaking from the 1976 earthquake, offering rare insight into seismic directivity and helping reconstruct a 4,000-year paleoseismic history. Sediment cores collected from four lakes in Guatemala have captured evidence of the direction in whic...

Aftershocks follow large earthquakes — sometimes for weeks, other times for decades. But in the U.S., some areas may be experiencing shocks from centuries-old events. In the 1800s, some of the strongest earthquakes in recorded U.S. history struck North America’s continental interior. Almost two cent...

The chance finding of a note in a 15th-century Hebrew prayer book fills an important gap in the historical Italian earthquake record, offering a brief glimpse of a previously unknown earthquake affecting the Marche region in the central Apennines. Paolo Galli, who found the note in the Apostolic Vat...