Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, however, tells a different story. The research team—led by experts from the ...

Geologists have a quiet saying that goes something like this: the ground does not forget. Every fracture in the earth's crust ...

Seismologists have a term they use carefully: a "seismic gap." It refers to a section of an active fault that has gone quiet ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers hoping to unravel the dance of earthquake movement in North America’s West Coast discovered a disturbing fact: Two of the world’s largest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Map showing the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas Fault. (USGS/Illustration by SFGATE) Two of the West Coast's most ...

It was a groundbreaking discovery. Scientists have found previously concealed fault lines along California’s north coast, sparking concerns that we could be drastically underestimating the earthquake ...

There's a sleeping fault line that runs along the border between Canada and Alaska. The line has been dormant for millions of years as best scientists can tell. But new research suggests it could be ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) - A geological fault line has been revealed in southwest Kalamazoo County following a small earthquake in the area over the weekend. Kazuya Fujita, a geosciences professor at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have discovered evidence of “partial synchronization” of two of the world’s most famous fault lines—the northern San ...