A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

The Denali Fault is a strike-slip fault, a place where two chunks of continental crust slide past each other. On Nov. 3, 2002, the fault jolted, creating a magnitude 7.9 earthquake that knocked ...

Researchers found the new fault line by looking at seismic activity between the earth’s surface and a geological layer ...

These faults usually occur in areas where the crust is very slowly stretching or where two plates are pulling away from each other. A normal fault is defined by the hanging wall (a term that comes ...

This fault is likely a "scar" in Earth's crust, formed when Zealandia broke off from Antarctica and Australia about 150 million years ago becoming its own landmass. During this process ...

They hypothesized that melting glaciers might alter the stresses on faults, potentially accelerating earthquakes in the short term by reducing the load on the crust. Computers can model this ...

The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live) is called the crust. It is made up of large ... Scotland - and The Great Glen - lie on the Great Glen fault. A fault is where two tectonic plates ...

Transform boundaries neither create nor consume crust. Rather, two plates move against ... The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world.