California, known for its seismic activity due to several geological faults such as the famous San Andreas Fault, has always experienced several small quakes most of them which can be either perceived ...

Researchers say ubiquitous evidence for ongoing geological carbon sequestration in mantle rocks in the creeping sections of the San Andreas Fault is one underlying cause of aseismic creep along a ...

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international research team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off ...

The United States has a habit of showcasing its geology. Long before cities and highways showed up, forces beneath the ...

More than 1.1 billion years ago, an immense geological fault called the Midcontinent Rift began to form beneath what is now the U.S. Midwest. This massive rift stretches approximately 2,000 kilometers ...

MAGNA, Utah — It has been three years since a 5.7-magnitude earthquake rocked much of northern Utah. Then last summer, the Utah Geological Survey dug a long trench to study two faults on the west side ...

The Tintina, a major geologic fault that extends 1,000 km northwestward across much of the Yukon Territory, was thought to have been inactive for at least 40 million years, but new research led by a ...

A long-forgotten fault in Canada's Yukon Territory has just revealed its dangerous potential. Scientists using cutting-edge satellite and drone data discovered that the Tintina fault, previously ...

NEW DELHI, Nov 24 (Reuters) - A tunnel which collapsed, trapping 41 workers in the Indian Himalayas this month, did not have an emergency exit and was built through a geological fault, a member of a ...

Geologists have been given a “one-of-a-kind” window into Scotland’s geological past as they analyse core rock drilled from the Great Glen Fault during investigations for a hydro-storage scheme. The ...