We identify a major top down to the south-east (in north-west and central Donegal) and top down to the south (in the Slieve League Peninsula) extensional ductile slide/shear zone which is located ...

Scientists studying the massive earthquake that struck the South Pacific on September 29, 2009, have found that it actually involved two great earthquakes: an initial one with magnitude 8.1, which ...

Researchers say they have identified the origins of an unusual fault that probably magnified the catastrophic 2011 Japan tsunami. On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck under the seabed ...

Conjugate sets of normal faults formed in the Quaternary fan sediments lying near the top of footwall rocks of the Ramgarh Thrust are analysed. These faults are recognized on left hillslope of Kosi ...

The Earth's crust is constantly moving, and certain regions of the globe offer us unique windows to observe these movements imperceptible to the naked eye. Researchers have just made a major discovery ...

Analysing lava flows that solidified and then broke apart over a massive crack in the Earth’s crust in Turkey has brought new insights into how continents move over time, improving our understanding ...

April 23 (UPI) --For the first time, scientists have produced a comprehensive map of the tectonic stresses acting on the North American continent. In the short term, the map of North American faults - ...

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“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 ...