Katherine Bourzac, Author at San Francisco Public Press

Katherine Bourzac

Katherine Bourzac, a freelance journalist based in San Francisco, writes about materials science, nanotechnology, energy, computing, medicine, and physics. After almost a decade as a science journalist, her favorite nanomaterial is carbon nanotubes and her favorite quasiparticle is the plasmon. If you don’t have favorites of your own yet, you should read some of her work in Technology Review, Nature, Chemical and Engineering News, and elsewhere.

California

Groundwater Depletion Is Destabilizing the San Andreas Fault and Increasing Earthquake Risk

05.14.2014

By Katherine Bourzac, Reporter

Research published today also links seasonal water levels to seasonal patterns in seismicity
Depletion of groundwater in the San Joaquin Valley is having wide-ranging effects not just on the agricultural industry and the environment, but also on the very earth beneath our feet. Massive changes in groundwater levels in the southern Central Valley are changing the stresses on the San Andreas Fault, according to research published today.