Scientists find seismic scars in Brzegi, Poland and warn that the actual risk from an unknown fault line is much greater than believed.

A detailed 3D reconstruction of the Marmara fault highlights high-stress boundaries that could trigger the next major ...

The Earth's crust may have something in common with a lot of people: It tends to be lazy, at least when it comes to moving along certain types of seismic faults, new research says. Using a special ...

For decades, scientists believed that Turkey's Tuz Gölü Fault moved sideways at a rate of 4.7 millimeters per year. Satellites orbiting Earth tracked this sideways sliding motion, and geologists built ...

Shrinking lakes in Tibet likely woke up long-dormant tectonic faults, a new study finds. The findings strengthen the link ...

AMHERST, Mass. – Geoscientist Michele Cooke and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst take an uncommon, "Earth is lazy" approach to modeling fault development in the crust that is ...

What is ground-fault protection? The answer depends on whether you are talking about ground-fault protection of equipment or ground-fault protection of people. Just because ground-fault protection is ...

A recent study has revealed extensive data on how strike-slip faults develop over time and eventually cause earthquakes at the Earth's surface. Researchers coined the movement of two plates in a ...

Some geoscientists have taken an uncommon, “Earth is lazy” approach to modeling fault development in the crust and it is providing new insights into how faults grow. In particular, this group is ...