The greater Los Angeles area has long been the subject of intense seismographic monitoring. A network of highly sensitive ...

Scientists using seismic data tracked groundwater levels beneath the L.A. area. They found heavy rains in 2023 boosted ...

The Los Angeles area’s groundwater remained depleted even after a series of historic atmospheric rivers struck the region in ...

Researchers at Stanford University developed a new method to measure water levels in the state’s aquifers using readily available seismic data.

“Although 2023’s huge storms and Hurricane Hilary helped restore the surface reservoirs, we found that there is still substantial depletion in deep aquifers,” said lead study author Shujuan ...

due to groundwater depletion. “The loss of aquifer storage capacity can be irreversible,” Mao added. “We hope that our method can help water agencies to fill gaps in their monitoring data ...

“We found that there is still substantial depletion in deep aquifers,” said Shujuan Mao, the study’s lead author, who conducted the research at Stanford and is now an assistant professor at ...

Groundwater is water stored beneath the Earth's surface in the spaces between rocks and sediments, collectively known as aquifers.