The two earthquakes that occurred this weekend in California, a 6.4 and a 7.1, were the largest to occur in the state in two decades, but they were not connected to the more well-known San Andreas ...

A pair of small earthquakes occurred one second apart late Sunday on different fault systems south of the U.S.-Mexico border, producing light shaking in areas of San Diego County, according to the U.S ...

Residents of Seattle should be aware of the earthquake risks in their area, experts say. Earthquakes occur along fractures, or faults, in the earth’s crust. When one of these cracks in the ground ...

As observed in Lesson 3, at low pressures and temperatures rock is a brittle material that will fail by fracture if the stresses become sufficiently large. When a lateral displacement takes place on a ...

Over the last several weeks, earthquakes have rocked parts of the United States from Alaska to Wednesday morning's quake in Tennessee. The most recent quake registered as a magnitude 4.4, just ...

A series of Mojave Desert quakes, including two sizable temblors, has California residents casting a wary eye on the famed San Andreas Fault, the Los Angeles Times says. But seismologists say the back ...

Researchers from Colombia’s Metropolitan Technological Institute of Medellin (ITM) have aggregated an open dataset of PV performance under different fault conditions. Available online, the set ...

AMHERST, Mass. – In a new paper recently published in the journal Geology, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst unveiled a physical model that yields an unprecedented, ...

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