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earthquake

Disaster drill aims to aid the elderly

NSF-funded CareDEX project tests Internet of Things technologies in mock emergency

A precariously balanced rock near Searchlight, Nev.

Precariously balanced rocks provide clues for unearthing underground fault connections

Stacked in gravity-defying arrangements in the western San Bernardino Mountains, near the San Andreas Fault, granite boulders that should have been toppled by earthquakes long ago resolutely remain. In exploring why these rocks still stand, researchers have uncovered connections between Southern California’s San Jacinto and San Andreas faults that could change how the region plans for future earthquakes.

Tatiana Benavidas consoling Constanza Quiroga after the earthquake

Measuring mental aftershocks

The massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile in February 2010 left thousands homeless, caused billions of dollars in damages and triggered a deadly tsunami. The psychological impact of such traumatic events over time is the focus of an ongoing research collaboration between UC Irvine psychologists and Chilean academic and government officials. The quake — the […]

Behrouz Shafei

Fellowship winner is engineering a better future

Doctoral candidate gauges infrastructure vulnerability to natural disasters.

Tomo No Kai selling $1 origami cranes to benefit Japan

Origami effort aids Japan

Fundraiser taps into Japanese culture to send UCI’s best wishes to earthquake, tsunami victims.

UCI seismologist Lisa Grant Ludwig

Finding more temblors along the fault

UCI seismologist Lisa Grant Ludwig finds far more frequent earthquakes along the San Andreas fault.

Little girl who received a pair of shoes

Mission to Mexico

UCI staff member Bernadette Strobel-Lopez makes weekly trek to bring basic necessities to victims of the Mexicali earthquake.

Port-au-Prince hours after earthquake.

From the ground up

It took scarcely 35 seconds Jan. 12 for a magnitude 7.0 earthquake to cripple Haiti, flattening its capital and killing more than 200,000 people, but it will take many years for the island nation to recover. While devastating quakes have since struck in Chile, Japan and elsewhere, Haiti’s situation is unique. Desperately poor before the […]

Shaking up earthquake theory

New information about the inner workings of earthquake faults could change how experts estimate the potential for the next “big one,” according to UC Irvine researchers.

Shake, rattle and roll

Earthquake simulations offer young students the thrills – and spills – of university research