If you felt the ground shake just before 8 p.m. Sunday, you weren’t imagining things.

A mathematical trick speeds up seismic calculations for earthquake simulations and could revolutionize earthquake preparedness.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The shaking produced by an earthquake can crack the ground, bring down buildings and cause massive rockfalls. All this destructive ...

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The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can also generate a flash of heat, along with a domino-like fracturing of ...

The shaking produced by an earthquake can crack the ground, bring down buildings and cause massive rockfalls. All this destructive power is, astoundingly, just a fraction of a quake’s overall energy.