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 ...
The 4.8-magnitude earthquake on the East Coast Friday came from ancient dormant faults. The faults formed when two continents collided about 500 million years ago, creating the Appalachians and ...
An earthquake measuring a 3.1 magnitude has hit outside the capital city of Ohio. The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected the tremor 77 miles east of Columbus at 3:14pm ET. The region sits atop an ...
Scientists find seismic scars in Brzegi, Poland and warn that the actual risk from an unknown fault line is much greater than believed.
Schematic figure of the subduction zone underneath the Kanto region (left) in Japan and the spatial distribution of magnitude 2 to 6 earthquakes on the subduction zone at 60 to 70 kilometers below ...