New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...

"The same physical process will take place in both cases — the explosive spring of the bent plates will release in the same way." Earthquakes form when two tectonic plates moving against one another ...

A period of slow, creeping movement without any shaking may ... similar to those found at a strike-slip fault like Califonia's San Andreas Fault. Though the materials are different, the mechanics ...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has rattled southern Texas in the vicinity of San Antonio, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...

There is a difference between faults and fault ... American plate and doesn't have well-developed faults that can be seen at the surface along plate boundaries, such as the San Andreas Fault ...

Louisiana does not rest on a tectonic plate boundary but is instead is ... It's not like the San Andreas fault, we're never going to have an earthquake up in the six, sevens or eights which ...

A major example of this plate movement is along the coastline of ... A good example of this is along the San Andreas Fault where the Pacific and the North American plates are sliding past each ...

Alex de Steiguer was about to send an email from a house on Star Island, 7 miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, when she heard what she thought was a big plane flying over. Outside, a flock ...

In further news on the situation, Trump signed an executive order re-naming San Andreas. From now on it’ll be known as ...