Each type of fault line represents a different kind of stress—tension, compression, or shear—acting on the Earth’s crust. Understanding these fault types is essential for assessing seismic ...

Seismological research is directly related to the incubation, occurrence, and evolution of earthquakes. Scientists seek to ...

"We found that rough and smooth faults in the rocks behaved ... Those were then pressurized to near-critical stress states using a triaxial MTS compression apparatus. The rock samples were also ...

They then compared the observed anisotropy to models of stress change caused by different processes, including tensile hydraulic fracturing opening, microseismic events on existing faults or ...

granular media and even geologic faults under compressive stress. "With the advent of new, advanced 'supermaterials' such as the CrCoNi alloy, a deep understanding of their behaviors is more ...

“That stress gets focused onto faults. There’s also some evidence ... “The force that’s generating these earthquakes is a large-scale compression in the Northeast to Southwest direction, ...

Languages: English, Spanish A series of earthquakes which shook Southern California earlier this year may have increased stress on parts of a major dormant fault line which has not produced any ...

The first one is called VeloC (Very Low Overhead transparent multilevel Checkpoint/restart), and it’s related to fault tolerance. The second one is EZ (Fast, effective, parallel error-bounded exascale ...

The magnitude-6.0 earthquake that hit northern California in the early hours of 24 August piled stress on to the Hayward fault, which is due for a major rupture. Centred on the Napa Valley ...