The root cause of earthquakes are geographic features called faults, or fault lines, defined as a fracture between two blocks ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Fault lines are fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates move past each other, often resulting in earthquakes. These geological features are classified into three ...

Evidence that a complete stress release may have contributed to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that broke records. Both sedimentary formations above and below the plate boundary fault lie in the stress ...

The graphic on the top shows how a high-angle normal fault cuts between two of the earth's plates. The block on the right shifts down as the fault moves. The graphic on the bottom shows a low-angle ...

A pair of moderate earthquakes that shook Northern California on Thursday and Friday happened near a region known as the Almanor Fault Zone, marking the two strongest temblors in almost a decade for a ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — In light of the recent disaster that occurred in Turkey and Syria, this week’s Weather Wednesday is about earthquakes. An earthquake is simply defined as shaking of the ground ...

Tibet: An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 struck Tibet on Tuesday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.

“The rocks themselves are telling us this is an important process,” Stanford geophysicist Eric Dunham said in a 2020 interview, speaking of the mysterious precursors faults emit before they slip. Over ...