Tell them there are different kinds of faults (strike-slip, normal, and reverse faults ... and name the plate motion that may contribute to their formation. 5. Allow students to exchange their ...

The US Geological Survey said this quake, whose epicenter was about 7 miles from southern Maine’s coastal town of York, was the strongest earthquake to strike the Northeast since last April’s 4.8 ...

The Denali Fault, a massive strike-slip fault system in Alaska ... This vast fault system offers critical insights into the formation of North America’s lithosphere. For decades, three regions ...

"The same physical process will take place in both cases — the explosive spring of the bent plates will release in the same way." Earthquakes form when two tectonic plates moving against one another ...