News + Impact - MIT EAPS

A Mobile Laser Scanning truck parked near a surface rupture in the California desert.

Earthquake damage at deeper depths occurs long after initial activity

October 6, 2025

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research, Students + Postdocs

Scanning electron photomicrograph highlights a region of rock that slipped during a laboratory-induced earthquake.

MIT geologists discover where energy goes during an earthquake

September 16, 2025

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research

The pursuit of reliable earthquake forecasting – Camilla Cattania for Physics Today

August 11, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media, Natural Hazards

Tom Herring to chair EAPS Program in Geophysics

July 13, 2025

Categories: Community

What if it Works? Podcast: Hydrogen beneath our feet with Brad Hager

May 7, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Natural Resources

The U.S. research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer photographed from a drone at Thwaites Glacier ice front in February 2019.

Inside a new quest to save the “doomsday glacier” with Brent Minchew

March 21, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, In the Media

Brent Minchew on Curiosity Unbounded, episode 14: Putting a glacier in its place

February 25, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Natural Hazards

On the left, an image of fiber optic cables plugged into a data center rack. On the right, a photo of Hilary Chang and John Morgante posing by a computer set up in a room filled with wires

How telecommunications cables can image the ground beneath us

February 4, 2025

Categories: Natural Hazards, Research, Students + Postdocs

Daniel Ortega-Arroyo earns Journal of Structural Geology Student Author of the Year

September 30, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Students + Postdocs

Jared Bryan: bridging the heavens and Earth through seismology

September 17, 2024

Categories: Planets, Profile, Students + Postdocs

Study: Heavy snowfall and rain may contribute to some earthquakes

May 8, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research

In darkness, thumbs hold two small spherical and one small cube objects that light up in vivid yellow, red, and green.

With a new experimental technique, MIT engineers probe the mechanisms of landslides and earthquakes

March 25, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research

A map of a section of Japan, including the Noto Peninsula, showing two pieces of information: one, the intensity of the January 1st earthquake getting smaller further away from the epicenter found off the coast of the Peninsula, and two, the slip amplitude, which has two intense clusters near the epicenter of 6 meters.

Q&A: What sets the recent Japan earthquake apart from others?

January 24, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Natural Hazards

Earth split open in center showing inner structure layer-by-layer

Boom, crackle, pop: Sounds of Earth’s crust

October 09, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

Sensing the world around us

June 26, 2023

Categories: Climate, Events + Outreach, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors

An aerial view of Mauna Loa showing the volcano in pinks, yellows and purples.

New seismic imaging technique gives fresh look at Earth’s mantle

June 21, 2023

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research, Students + Postdocs

Earth in black space, with constellations and data wave.

Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new study finds

November 16, 2022

Categories: Climate, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

Leigh Royden, dressed in a burgundy coat jacket, smiles while standing in an out-of-focus white hallway.

Geophysicist Leigh Royden looks at Earth from the top down

October 30, 2022

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Profile

Frozen

August 24, 2022

Categories: Profile, Students + Postdocs

Using seismology for groundwater management

August 22, 2022

Categories: Alumni, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Resources, Research