The Julian earthquake is worth closer examination not for its size or damage (there was very little), but for a demonstration ...

While most people think of continents as stationary masses, the truth is that every landmass on Earth is in motion, riding ...

Earthquakes, Major Structures, Extensional Faulting, Dead Sea Transform Fault, Jordan Share and Cite: Salameh, E. and Yaseen, ...

Berea proudly wears its “Folk Arts and Crafts Capital of Kentucky” crown, and the Log House Craft Gallery serves as its ...

Tucked away just outside the small town of Madrid, Iowa lies a natural wonder that defies everything you thought you knew about the Hawkeye State’s landscape – Ledges State Park, where dramatic ...

Maps like this will be updated as more reports of actual ... These two plates move past each other as they are moving at different rates along a transform plate boundary (a bit like the San Andreas ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

Oceanic transform faults have historically been thought of as simple, predictable features. They represent the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...