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 ...

California is home to hundreds of faults. This partly explains why the state sees so many earthquakes. They can range wildly in size and shape. A fault is a fracture zone between two large blocks of ...

Folds and Faults HD (99 cents) is an iPad geology app that describes—and illustrates, with photos, diagrams, and a series of animations—the behavior of rock under stress. The app is well produced, and ...

A drilling rig used for fracking. Oklahoma, Ohio and Arkansas have experienced an unusually large number of earthquakes in recent years. The shaking is rising at the same time that oil and gas ...

A recent study has revealed extensive data on how strike-slip faults develop over time and eventually cause earthquakes at the Earth's surface. Researchers coined the movement of two plates in a ...

Officials of the California Geological Survey marked the agency's 150th anniversary Tuesday by releasing two updated maps revealing the latest information on all the state's active seismic faults, as ...

New light has been shed on the processes by which ocean water enters the solid Earth during continental breakup. New research shows a direct link on geological timescales between fault activity and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake gets headlines around the Pacific Northwest, but geologists say the next big earthquake you feel will likely come from a fault somewhere else.

North and south Narmada lineaments, representing Narmada–Son lineament (NSL) in the Jabalpur sector are associated with gravity anomalies typical of faults. Both the north and south Narmada faults ...