The University of British Colombia research team developed a new system that keeps high-rises safe during major earthquakes.

The East Tennessee Seismic Zone is an active one, even if it isn't known to produce quakes strong enough to be catastrophic. The most recent one centered near Greenback fits that pattern ...

He said that he’s not surprised it happened because that part of the state is an active seismic zone called the East Tennessee Seismic Zone. “Earthquakes there are happening there all the time ...

Diego Melgar earned his PhD in geophysics from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in 2014. He came to ...

Minor quakes can disrupt natural tectonic patterns deep underground and change stress landscape, new study finds ...

The grottoes sit within the highly active Tianshui seismic zone and have suffered significant damage from earthquakes throughout history. Historical records document over 20 destructive ...

Dr. Seth Carpenter, a UK Seismologist, says the epicenter of the 4.1 magnitude earthquake was around 30 miles south of Knoxville, within the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone. “It’s a zone of ...

“There’s something called the eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone, and it’s a line that runs actually from northern Alabama all the way up to Virginia,” explained Dr. Shawn Cruzen, director of ...

The largest of those was a magnitude 4.7 earthquake near Knoxville in November 1973.More recently, two tremors struck the seismic zone in December 2018. One was a 4.4 magnitude earthquake that was ...

including zones like the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone, is also characterized by recurring seismic events. While generally less powerful than those experienced on the West Coast, these events are ...

THIS MAP SHOWS ALL THE AREAS PEOPLE REPORTED FEELING ... according to USGS Operational Aftershock Forecasts.The eastern Tennessee seismic zone extends across Tennessee and northwestern Georgia ...