Admit fault and move on. Why? Have you ever watched two people quarrel, or otherwise be stuck in a conflict with each other? Usually, if either or both of them simply acknowledged one or more things, ...

Two of the biggest fault lines in the world are synched together in a way that could lead to disastrous consequences, according to recent scientific analysis. This synchronization raises alarms about ...

Move on after you admit fault. Why? Have you ever watched two people quarrel, or otherwise be stuck in a conflict with each other? Usually, if either or both of them simply acknowledged one or more ...

When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath the Earth's surface, some faults move in near silence. These slow, shuffling slips and their accompanying hum -- ...

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

A study of the 2025 Myanmar earthquake, published in Science, found that seemingly “simple” faults can behave in surprisingly complex ways. Small differences in how parts of a fault move over time may ...

Illustration of the Cascadia subduction zone, a region where the patterns examined in this study play out. (Credit: Carie Frantz, Wikimedia Commons) When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, ...