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       Earthquakes not only shake the ground from side to side, they hoist it up and down as though the earth is bouncing on a trampoline, researchers in Japan found. The scientists found evidence of the jarring vertical movements from analyzing data recorded by seismographs during a powerful earthquake that struck northern Japan on June 14. Read more…

Why do some earthquakes terminate along a fault, while others jump or step-over a gap to another fault? The underlying structure of a fault determines whether an earthquake rupture will jump from one fault to another, magnifying its size and potential devastation. Read more…