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.

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

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 ...

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck near York Harbor, Maine, early Monday, sending tremors as far south as Boston and as far ...

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 ...

The crust would have been under great strain and torn between these two parts. That ancient tear zone set the geologic stage for the modern Seattle fault, the study authors posit. "It was a total ...

A minor earthquake struck parts of Massachusetts and New England, leaving residents startled but with minimal damage. Experts ...