To create the high-frequency waves, McLaskey and his colleagues first built a fault model out of 8-inch (200-millimeter ... Becky Oskin covers Earth science, climate change and space, as well ...

the rivers that cross fault lines change shape. The shifting ground stretches the river channels until the water breaks its courses and flows onto new paths. In a study published July 8 in Science, ...

To better understand how the characteristics of the affected fault ... of Science at the University of Tokyo and lead author of the current study. Researchers wanted to develop a model of the ...

In this week’s Science, Professor Shamita Das suggests that ruptures in the Earth’s surface moving at 6km per second could make future earthquakes along California’s San Andreas fault much ...

A California fault ... an 8.0-magnitude earthquake began sliding following the Ridgecrest earthquake sequence this summer, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

scientists reported Oct. 17 in the journal Science. Since July, the fault has slipped about 0.8 inches (2 centimeters) at the surface. You may like 'This is a very big earthquake': The science ...