New research finds the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in Southern California are more stressed now than at any time in 1,000 years, raising long-term earthquake risk for millions. Scientists ...

Stress levels beneath Southern California’s two most dangerous fault systems have climbed to their highest in at least 1,000 years, prompting fresh concerns that the long-feared “Big One” may be ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every bridge has parts that drivers never see: steel buried in concrete, ...

Tight reservoirs, such as shale, sandstone, carbonate, and volcanic rock formations, commonly exhibit extremely low porosity and permeability. Consequently, storage and flow of hydrocarbons within ...