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![The Lembang fault crosses the northern parts of Bandung city in Indonesia. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/the-lembang-fault.webp)
Nearly three million people in Indonesia’s second city could be affected by an earthquake
BGS-led research reveals the number of people in the Bandung metropolitan region who could be exposed to a major earthquake.
![Murrayfield Stadium located in Edinburgh, Scotland - © Thomas Feige / iStock.com](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Murrayfield_Stadium.jpg)
Quake it off: Taylor Swift concerts shake Edinburgh
Seismometers around Edinburgh were triggered by the rapturous Murrayfield crowds over the weekend.
![Margarita Segou. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/margarita-segou-gji.webp)
BGS seismologist named editor-in-chief of Geophysical Journal International
Margarita Segou has been appointed as the editor-in-chief of one of the world’s leading, peer-reviewed research journals in solid-Earth geophysics.
![A map of the southern Turkey/northern Syria area showing fault lines in blue and the epicentres of the two major earthquakes of 6 February 2023 as red circles and many aftershocks as yellow circles.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/STurkeyMap-1-960x641.jpg)
The Kahraman Maraş earthquake sequence, Turkey/Syria, 2023
Two large earthquakes occurred within hours of each other on 6 February 2023.
![The ECORD IODP Expedition 386 Research Team on the helideck of The Chikyu research vessel.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IODP_helideck.jpg)
BGS scientists on board research vessel in Japan in major marine research collaboration
Experts from BGS's marine team are part of a major international marine research collaboration to understand more about earthquakes associated with the Japan Trench.
![Figure 1. A year of seismicity in the epicentral area of the 2016 M=6.0 Amatrice earthquake (star) in Italy color coded by time of occurrence. (a) Real-time catalog, available at http://cnt.rm.ingv.it/ and (b) machine-learning catalog1 are shown for event magnitudes above their respective magnitude of completeness1,2 Mc=2.2 and Mc=0.5 (from Beroza et al., 2021).](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/seismicityInTheEpicentraArea.jpg)
The future of earthquake forecasting
Machine-learning illuminates earthquake activity with unprecedented detail, leading to improved earthquake forecasts.
![Tsunami damage May 2011 - North Honshu Island](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/David_Tappin_1313_North_Honshu_Island-960x645.jpg)
10 years on: the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
In remembrance, Prof David Tappin discusses the importance of tsunami anniversaries
![2007 Folkestone earthquake](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/seismic_hazard_thumbnail.jpg)
Developing new seismic hazard maps for the UK
Understanding and quantifying the hazard earthquakes pose to the built environment in the UK.