second only to California, the greatest risk from earthquakes in the country," during an interview with KIRO7. Washington state has dozens of active faults and fault zones beneath major cities ...

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When you think of earthquakes and where they happen, your mind might go to California ... The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) is a 150-mile stretch of faults that runs to the southwest from ...

Researchers have long thought that this force is the central driver of earthquakes. But another force is also in the mix: the properties of the rocks in the fault zones along the plate interface.

A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of earthquakes. Earthquakes occur along fault lines between ...