A vast tectonic fault buried beneath Canada’s remote Yukon Territory is drawing urgent attention from seismologists after a ...

By studying ancient lava flows that fractured over Turkey’s Tuz Gölü Fault, researchers at Curtin University have uncovered ...

As much as we would all like to just accept that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson could indeed fight the San Andreas fault and defeat an earthquake with just his raised eyebrow and amazing biceps, it's ...

After finding more than 300 surface faults in Harris County, a geologist now has information that could be vitally useful to the region's builders and city planners. This information -- the most ...

The West Coast's earthquake nightmare just got worse. Scientists have uncovered evidence that the two most feared fault lines ...

Their study, published in Nature Communications, found that after millions of years of inactivity, stress can quietly build ...

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 ...

A major California fault once thought to be stable is quietly shifting beneath neighborhoods, schools, and it could lead to a powerful quake with no warning. A new US geological (USGS) survey showed ...

Machu Picchu, the 600-year-old Incan citadel in modern-day Peru, is notoriously hard to get to. Built on a narrow ridge in the Andes Mountains, this UNESCO world heritage site is still difficult to ...

Researchers unveiled a physical model that yields an unprecedented, high-resolution look at the slip rates of faults, which determine the likelihood of earthquakes. In a new paper recently published ...