As PG&E’s aging Diablo nuclear power plant is up for a license renewal, one scientist cites new GPS data to suggest there’s a looming seismic threat.

The Puente Hills thrust fault is a broad underground fault that runs through Los Angeles and Orange counties, including under downtown Los Angeles — and scientists warn that it could one day ...

The Puente Hills thrust fault is the same overall fault network that produced the Whittier Narrows – which measured a 5.9 magnitude, killed eight people and caused some $358 million in damage in ...

The lobate scarps are formed when the lunar crust is pushed together as the moon contracts. This causes the near-surface materials to break forming a thrust fault. The thrust fault carries crustal ...

From west to east, the normal faults indicate predominantly E-W extension which is interpreted to be the result of faulting along the South Tibetan Grabens. Other results show a prominent thrust fault ...

This region is globally recognised for seismic activity because it lies atop a major tectonic boundary, where the Indian ...

Earthquake of September 8, 2023 Fault plate with seismic analysis of maps recorded in seismographic stations, with an azimuth direction of 255 degrees (northeast-southwest direction with north-75-east ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Fault lines are fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates move past each other, often resulting in earthquakes. These geological features are classified into ...

We should not expect that the thrust fault below each scarp has moved only once. The biggest earthquake on Earth in recent years, the magnitude 9 Tohoku earthquake offshore of Japan in 2011, which ...

Nepal earthquake "damaged Main Himalayan Thrust fault" ⊕ "Rupture stopped halfway at 11 km under Kathmandu" ⊕ "Stop is temporary, further rupture is yet to happen" ...

The thrust fault carries crustal materials up, and sometimes over, adjacent crustal materials. Slip events on the thrust fault trigger shallow moonquakes that can cause strong seismic shaking many ...