In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based on the evidence.

Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based ...

The earthquake struck at a depth of 10 kilometers ... Ridge is known for its continuous tectonic activity, resultant from the divergent boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate ...

Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 ...

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and ...

constructive and conservative plate boundaries and how the plates move at each of these, with earthquakes occurring as a result of plate boundary movement. In 2010 a major earthquake caused ...

Southern California is seismically active due to its location on tectonic plate boundaries, having experienced major quakes like the 1994 Northridge event. A strong but shallow earthquake with a ...