After faults deep in the Earth get shaken up from a stress-relieving event, they can be patched right back up to continue the endless earthquake cycle. However, this self-healing ability doesn't apply ...

In central Turkey, beneath the arid plains surrounding Lake Tuz, a silent geological shift is underway. A fault zone once thought to mirror the lateral motion of neighboring systems is instead tearing ...

That was not your imagination. New Jersey and other areas on the East Coast experienced a 4.8 magnitude earthquake on Friday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. After Friday's ...

A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of earthquakes. Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental ...