“In principle, when we know where the energy is being stored, we can say which places are more likely to have an earthquake and which places less," says Howard Zebker.

Inside a quest to save lives by cleaning up production of a ubiquitous building material.

A Stanford team is now combining satellite data and political persuasion to track kilns and incentivize kiln owners to use cleaner technologies.

Stanford Earth's Howard Zebker was chosen by the American Geophysical Union to be one of its 60 new Fellows