Earth-observing satellites reveal significant ground shift in central Myanmar following the devastating earthquakes that ...

Myanmar's deadly earthquake has raised alarms beyond Southeast Asia. In Africa, fault lines stretching across ... geologists created the Seismotectonic Map of Africa, highlighting regions based ...

Historic earthquakes have caused billions of dollars ... Many of the more vulnerable counties were located along major fault lines, such as King County in Washington, home to Seattle and which ...

It was so destructive because it broke along around100km (62 miles) of fault line, causing major damage ... together to prepare the city for earthquakes. The map below shows the first three ...

Folarin Kolawole, a structural geologist at Columbia University, US, says assessing a region's earthquake risk involves looking at historic earthquakes in the region and identifying fault lines ...

Credit: SciTechDaily.com Fault zones are often wide, branching networks rather than narrow lines ... rupture maps, creeping zone width from surveys of slowly shifting monuments along faults and ...

Using rock samples collected from the Wasatch Fault, geoscientists combined experiments and analysis with examinations of fault rock textures. The team's research revealed significant clues about the ...

About 240 miles long, Utah's Wasatch Fault stretches along the western edge of the Wasatch Mountains from southern Idaho to ...

Using data compiled from single earthquakes ... strength of the fault in some really tangible ways." The researchers used a variety of data in their study, including rupture maps, creeping zone ...

A major, 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck in the South Atlantic Ocean on Friday, prompting an alert for a potential tsunami ...