A team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the ...

Data from the USGS shows that the epicenter of the Myanmar earthquake was particularly shallow, at just 10 kilometers (6.2 ...

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Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based ...

A microquake was recorded last week near the New Jersey epicenter of the 4.8 magnitude earthquake that shook Long Island on ...

What is the Sagaing Fault? The Sagaing Fault is a significant tectonic structure that divides Myanmar into eastern and western halves, with each moving distinctly due to tectonic pressures. According ...

LoopStructural is an opensource Python library for 3D geological modelling. The library has been built in the scope of the Loop project (Loop3d.org). LoopStructural can: Model fault networks ...

This is a type of earthquake where the fault ruptures faster than the seismic ... distance from the earthquake's source,” the US Geological Survey (USGS) explains, “so the strength of shaking ...

Earthquakes are relatively common in Myanmar, where six strong quakes of 7.0 magnitude or more struck between 1930 and 1956 ...