Southern California has had more moderate earthquakes this year than it has in decades, leaving many wondering what is going ...

may prove to be more dangerous than the famous San Andreas Fault. The Puente Hills thrust fault runs beneath downtown Los Angeles and Orange County – two highly populated areas. The 10-mile deep ...

Monday’s magnitude 4.4 quake that rattled Southern California is believed to have struck on a well-known and dangerous fault system known as the Puente Hills thrust fault system. Aug. 8 ...

Southeners have all heard the story about the large earthquake in the 1800s that caused the Mississippi River to "flow ...

Caption This prominent thrust fault is one of thousands discovered on the moon by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). These faults resemble small stair-shaped cliffs, or scarps, when seen ...

As observed in Lesson 3, at low pressures and temperatures rock is a brittle material that will fail by fracture if the stresses become sufficiently large. When a lateral displacement takes place ...

"Our modeling suggests that shallow moonquakes capable of producing strong ground shaking in the south polar region are possible from slip events on existing faults or the formation of new thrust ...

Mount Everest (also known as Chomolungma or Sagarmāthā) is famously the highest mountain in the Himalayas and indeed on Earth ...

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An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 hit Udalguri district of Assam on Sunday morning, shaking areas of north-central Assam.

A spate of notable quakes have rattled Southern California in recent months — a reminder that the last three decades of ...