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

When the crust breaks, it develops ruptures, and rock masses are displaced along these faults. Where exactly and how faulting will occur depends to a large extent on the nature of the stresses.

Normal faults show cracks where one block of rock is sliding down and away from another block of rock. These faults usually occur in areas where the crust is very slowly stretching or where two plates ...

Moderate earthquakes have occurred along faults in the shallow crust above this zone. But these faults dip at steep angles of over 45 degrees — a geometry that is not considered favourable for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...