Earthquakes: Predicting the Unpredictable
Schedule
Fri Apr 10 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Eccles Science Learning Center, Emert Auditorium, ESLC 130 | Logan, UT
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Inquiring minds of all ages are invited to Science Unwrapped at USU, the public STEM outreach program of USU's College of Arts and Sciences. Admission is free. The evening begins at 7 p.m. in ESLC 130 with a brief talk, followed by hands-on learning activities and refreshments in the ESLC atrium.On Friday, April 10, 2026:
EARTHQUAKES: PREDICTING THE UNPREDICTABLE
You can see dark clouds forming in the distance and prepare for a storm. Hurricane forecasters can pinpoint disturbances over oceans, track their movements and predict where and when they might strike land. Not so with earthquakes, says USU geophysicist Srisharan Shreedharan – at least not yet.
Srisharan and his graduate students make tiny earthquakes or “labquakes” in his innovative “earthquake machines.” At Science Unwrapped, Srisharan and master’s student Lindsey Broderick will share what they’re learning and how their efforts could improve earthquake forecasting broadly, and closer to home, along the Wasatch Fault Zone in Utah.
The Eccles Science Learning Center (ESLC) is located on USU's Logan campus, south of the Taggart Student Center and north of Old Main. ESLC map = https://www.usu.edu/map/index.cfm?id=15
FREE PARKING is available for Science Unwrapped in the Aggie Parking Terrace at 700 East 600 North, Logan, and in the Big Blue Parking Terrace at 850 East 700 North, Logan. You DO NOT need to use the mobile parking app.
Learn more at: https://artsci.usu.edu/unwrapped/tell-me
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