A study on tectonic plates that converge on the Tibetan Plateau has shown that Earth's fault lines are far weaker and the ...

Along the remote coast where the San Andreas Fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, earthquakes too small for humans to feel are sketching out a hidden map of danger. By tracking these tiny tremors ...

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Jessica DePaolis (second from left) and the team of researchers studied and compared sedimentary core samples in Montague Island, Alaska, and found evidence that four of the past eight earthquakes ...

Tiny earthquakes reveal hidden fault structures beneath Northern California, reshaping understanding of regional earthquake ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

From space, the Iberian Peninsula – primarily occupied by Spain and Portugal – looks like an immovable solid block of land anchoring southwestern Europe. But beneath that apparent stability, the ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating earthquake risk at the Cascadia subduction zone. When you purchase through ...