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

Portraits of Kristin Bergmann and William Frank

Kristin Bergmann and William Frank promoted

July 1, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Faculty + Senior Researchers

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

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

Three EAPS faculty members appointed to career development professorships

November 2, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Mission Mojave: IAP 2022 geophysics fieldwork

February 17, 2022

Categories: Community

Shaking up earthquake research at MIT

January 19, 2022

Categories: Natural Hazards, Research

3 Questions: Understanding the Haiti earthquakes

October 6, 2021

Categories: Natural Hazards, Research

EAPS welcomes Camilla Cattania and William Frank

July 8, 2020

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers