When people think about geological faults, they usually think about earthquakes. Yet faults do not move only during ...

A Chinese geology team has identified an active fault line directly beneath the major hydropower project under construction ...

The country was hit hard by a pair of quakes that happened in quick succession and were likely driven by stress being transferred from one part of the fault that runs through the country to another.

A study by Chinese geologists has warned that Beijing’s planned $147-billion hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River ...

A geologic fault system in central Italy that produced a deadly earthquake in 2016 is also responsible for a fifth-century earthquake that damaged many Roman monuments, including the Colosseum, ...

A fault slicing across Turkey has long been a textbook example of how tectonic plates grind past one another, yet the headline promise that it is “overturning decades of geology” cannot be verified ...

PORTLAND - Geologists think Mount Hood is sitting on shakey ground. The Oregonian first reported that scientists have discovered a previously undetected - and active fault zone on the mountain.

Some geologic faults that appear strong and stable, slip and slide like weak faults. Now geologists have provided laboratory evidence showing why some faults that "should not" slip are weaker than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the best places to visualize the geological features known as the Balcones Escarpment and Balcones Fault is Mount Bonnell.

Researchers unveiled a physical model that yields an unprecedented, high-resolution look at the slip rates of faults, which determine the likelihood of earthquakes. In a new paper recently published ...