The San Andreas Fault is about 800 miles long (1,287 kilometers), stretching from the Mendocino coast south to the San Bernardino Mountains and the Salton Sea. Geologists divide the fault into ...

But faults can also be hundreds of miles long, such as the San Andreas Fault in California and the ... where tectonic plates push up mountain ranges such as the Himalayas and the Rocky Mountains.

A major fault located in Utah, USA, called the Wasatch Fault, is worrying scientists. It could cause larger earthquakes in ...

A recent study from Utah State University geoscientists explores the characteristics of rocks from a fault zone in Utah.

The group was taken to various spots along the fault, including the junction of four primary transverse ranges near the San Gorgonio Pass, which includes the San Bernardino Mountains; Thousand ...

We finally know how a fault that gave rise to Denali, North America's highest mountain, first formed. According to new research, the Denali Fault is actually an ancient suture mark where two land ...

The strongest is a magnitude 4.7 that struck in 1973. The earthquake that occurred Wednesday didn't happen near a fault line in Tennessee, for the most part, the state is free of any faults that ...

Here are 10 facts about Scotland’s tallest mountains. 1. Munros are named after ... on the northwest side of the Highland Boundary Fault. Despite its small size, Scotland is extremely ...

“It’s a dipping fault, so one side moves down relative to the other. So basically, it raises mountains and deepens valleys.” A version of the Gore Range fault has been active on and off for ...