Engineers and scientists experimentally observe surface twisting in thrust faults that can momentarily rip open the earth's surface. It is a common trope in disaster movies: an earthquake strikes, ...

As PG&E’s aging Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is up for a 20-year federal license renewal, one scientist cites new GPS data to suggest there’s a looming seismic threat from an active thrust fault ...

Countless seismic faults just as dangerous as the one that triggered Monday's San Simeon earthquake are suspected to be lurking throughout the Bay Area. Scientists have known about some of these ...

On Saturday, a portion of the thrust fault underneath central Nepal ruptured, causing an earthquake that killed at least 5,200 people, injured more than 10,000 and destroyed centuries-old temples, ...

Three hundred seventeen years ago, the last really Big One let loose in our area. A great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone ruptured a 600 to 700 mile-long fault from Humboldt County to ...

The orange line is the current interpretation of the Keweenaw Fault location. Based on Graff and Tyrrell’s observations and analysis, the fault appears to be a system of splay faults (shown here by ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Figure 2: Deformation patterns observed in Sentinel-1 interferograms for the 2015 Gorkha mainshock and comparison with long-term ...