Strong shaking at fault stepover has rocks--briefly--defying gravity Date: April 25, 2025 Source: Seismological Society of America Summary: When a seismologist visited the site of the 2019 ...

The rock layers themselves along this fault line are a mixture of different types of rocks. The region the researchers examined is covered by a network of borehole seismometer stations placed ...

The remainder, whatever is left, that's what's sent out as seismic waves." Dry parts of the fault line can get so hot - about 1000 degrees Celsius - that the rock melts.

The study, published in the journal Geology, focuses on the rocks that make up the fault. By studying them, scientists are trying to better understand how this fault moves and what it means for ...

When Julian Lozos visited the site of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes two days after the event, he noticed something strange. Pebble- to boulder-sized rocks had clearly been moved by the ...

A major fault located in Utah, USA, called the Wasatch Fault, is worrying scientists. It could cause larger earthquakes in Salt Lake City. A new study shows that this fault descends less steeply ...