2016 AAAS Annual Meeting (February 11-15, 2016)

February 10 - 15, 2016

Living with Earthquakes: Causes, Early Warning, and Damage Mitigation

Throughout the world, major earthquakes expose highly populated regions to significant risk. Understanding how slow fault movements can lead to large earthquakes, speedily alerting nearby populations of possible danger after an event occurs, and using this information to reduce damage and casualties are issues of great interest to local residents of these regions, policymakers, and scientists. Researchers from Japan and the United States present recent developments in the field.