Earlier study of the region had shown that the spreading in the area occurs at an average rate of a bit over 60 millimeters a ...

Scientists at South Africa's University of Cape Town on Tuesday called for heightened monitoring of the Karoo Basin after ...

An additional 33 holes targeting the Freeman veining within the True Blue deposit have been drilled since Alkane’s previous ...

Beneath our feet, the Earth is in a constant, slow negotiation with itself. Tectonic plates grind, lock, flex, and ...

Stress levels beneath Southern California’s two most dangerous fault systems have climbed to their highest in at least 1,000 years, prompting fresh concerns that the long-feared “Big One” may be ...

Philippine tectonics is complex, caught in a vise between two major subduction zones to both the east and west, and numerous subplates interact.

New research finds the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in Southern California are more stressed now than at any time in 1,000 years, raising long-term earthquake risk for millions. Scientists ...

Researchers modeled 1,000 years of earthquake history along Southern California's San Andreas and San Jacinto faults. What they found was troubling. Reading time 4 minutes No U.S. region is at greater ...

A hidden network of earthquake faults running beneath Seattle may be far more active than scientists realized. New research reveals that smaller “secondary” faults in the Seattle Fault Zone appear to ...

In the winter of 923, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the heart of Puget Sound. Shorelines slid into the water, the seafloor rose up, and a tsunami swept through the region. The Seattle fault zone, ...

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There are two kinds of people who don’t hang pictures on their walls: minimalists, and people who live directly above a fault line. Alex Cully is the latter. From 2016 to 2017, Cully rented an ...