A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban ...

A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban ...

South Carolina has high seismic activity despite not being on a plate boundary. Scientists still don't know the answer for ...

The travelling earthquake While the ground feels steadfast at the surface, deeply buried bedrock can resemble a shattered window pane. These cracks, or faults, are where earthquakes occur.

Earthquakes occur primarily because of movements along fault lines — fractures in the Earth’s crust where blocks of rock move relative to each other. These movements are often found at ...

And after we did that, we found out that many of them occur in small kind of ligament, which is probably indication that there are some small faults." It's possible that Tuesday's earthquake was ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Jamie Farrell, associate research ...

He said: "Washington has, second only to California, the greatest risk from earthquakes in the country," during an interview with KIRO7. Washington is home to dozens of active faults and fault ...

In the process, the force of the injection shakes the ground and loosens up dormant faults, creating minor earthquakes. There have been over 200 earthquakes in the same area of Culberson County ...