The most widespread way is through Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), which sends loud alerts to all cellphones. If an ...

Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course of days or weeks rather than minutes – and scientists have now recorded some ...

Real Salt Lake can move into a playoff position with a home victory over the struggling San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday in Sandy, Utah. San Jose (7-9-8, 29 points) is just a point ahead of Salt Lake ...

Up to 98 percent of the energy of an earthquake goes into flash heating rocks, not shaking the ground, new research shows. The finding could help yield better earthquake forecasts ...

Salt Lake City, and most of Utah’s population, sits on one of the largest normal faults in the world, the Wasatch Fault. According to a 2016 report, there’s a 57% chance of a magnitude 6 or greater ...

Using meticulous biochemistry and minimal ingredients, researchers have re-created one of the weirdest materials inside animal cells, the actomyosin cortex—a meshwork of structural and motor proteins ...

The state of California is opening a lottery for homeowners looking to prepare their homes for the next earthquake. The Earthquake Brace + Bolt program is an annual loterry offering up to $3,000 to ...

The team mixed purified actin monomers with precise concentrations of two nucleation-promoting factors, Arp2/3 and formin, to grow networks of branched and straight F-actin filaments, as seen in this ...