A rare, ultra-long earthquake in Myanmar revealed that mature faults can deliver their full force directly to the surface.

For decades, scientists viewed the Tuz Gölü Fault in central Turkey as a straightforward sideways slider, with GPS data ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presents a never-before-seen image of an oceanic transform fault from ...

The central section of the San Andreas Fault could host larger quakes than previously realized. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath the Earth's surface, some faults move in near silence. These slow, shuffling slips and their accompanying hum -- ...

A small part of the San Andreas Fault that was thought to quietly slide without shaking its neighbors may actually be capable of strong earthquakes, including magnitude-6 shakers, a new study finds.

Some of the largest and deadliest earthquakes in recent years hit where earthquake hazard estimates didn't predict massive quakes. A detailed computer model of large earthquakes in Japan and Taiwan ...

A major southern California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 temblor started to move for the first time in 500 years following a series of earthquakes in the Mojave Desert over the summer, ...

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

On July Fourth, the most powerful earthquake to hit Southern California in nearly 20 years struck a remote part of the Mojave Desert. A day later, an even larger temblor rocked the same area. Though ...

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