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X-ray view of carbonate minerals deposited within a basalt core.

X-raying rocks reveals their carbon-storing capacity

March 6, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Resources, Research, Students + Postdocs

Roadway buckled by earthquake damage.

New study unveils the mechanism behind “boomerang” earthquakes

February 18, 2026

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

Images from experiments and graphs demonstrating simultaneous optical, mechanical, and acoustic measurements revealing brittle microcracking and crystal-plastic twinning in calcite generate distinguishable acoustic signals.

Eos: Visualizing and hearing the brittle–plastic transition

February 3, 2026

Categories: In the Media, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research

When we remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, how long does it stay locked away?

December 4, 2025

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

A figure can be seen standing near a marge crack in the ground caused by the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake.

Eos: The Ridgecrest Earthquake Left Enduring Damage in Earth’s Deep Crust

November 15, 2025

Categories: In the Media, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research

Tom Herring stands in front of a large dam.

Geology Bites: Tom Herring talks High-Precision Geodesy

October 20, 2025

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

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 06, 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 04, 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 9, 2023

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