In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

California is no stranger to earthquakes, but the risk of earthquakes hitting San Diego County specifically lies on the fact ...

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and ...

A preliminary 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck near San Diego, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake's epicenter ...

Salameh, E. and Yaseen, M. (2025) Structural Elements and Seismic Activity in Jordan and Its Levant Surroundings. Journal of ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake jolted southern California Monday morning near San Diego felt as far away as Mexico, according to ...

The 28 March magnitude 7.7 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) earthquake caused widespread and severe damage in Myanmar and neighboring countries such as Thailand, with more than 5,000 casualties now confirmed ...

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 ...