The Mission Creek and Banning faults are two principal strands of the San Andreas fault zone in the northern Coachella Valley of southern California. The two faults merge at depth to form one fault ...

Koji Kiyosugi et al., Dept. of Geology, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA. Posted online 15 June 2012; doi: 10.1130/G33074.1. Cities like Auckland (NZ) ...

Researchers studied quartz from the San Andreas Fault at the microscopic scale, the scale at which earthquake-triggering stresses originate. The results could one day lead to a better understanding of ...

The geometric structure of rocks where earthquakes occur could play a key role in determining their location and strength, researchers have found. A study, carried out by geologists at Brown ...

When the biggest earthquake in more than a decade rattled Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula in July, seismologists around the world knew within moments. For earthquakes big or small, sensors around ...

Daniel Trugman, assistant professor in the Nevada Seismological Laboratory (NSL), and Avigyan Chatterjee, doctoral student in the NSL, have published a research article in the journal Nature about how ...

Ground fissures and tectonic faults represent critical structural features within sedimentary basins, where the interplay of regional stress fields, depositional environments and, at times, human ...

The audience was stunned. Atwater was the first person to use the newly revealed secrets of the seafloor to explain a ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Scientists have completed the most detailed map yet of the geologic fault at the foot of the Teton Range, one of the most visually striking and potentially dangerous seismic areas in ...

A fault slicing across Turkey has long been a textbook example of how tectonic plates grind past one another, yet the headline promise that it is “overturning decades of geology” cannot be verified ...

Participants in the recent UW field course in Moab, Utah, are, from left: students Titus Timbers, Austin Quillinan, Jack McKinley, Logan Gray, Rachel Bryan, Aditya Srivastava, Phoebe Futcher, Abigail ...