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

The quake that struck Alaska’s southern coast on Wednesday, July 16 is part of a larger sequence that may continue to unfold ...

At divergent boundaries, plates move away from each other and form mid-ocean ridges or major rift zones, and at strike-slip boundaries plates slide past each other.

The April quakes, which took place off the coast of Indonesia, are the largest slip-strike faults ever observed. Additionally, the two earthquakes took place within a plate, rather than on its edge.

Earthquake scientists rely on distant seismic instruments to infer how faults rupture during large earthquakes. This video ...

Tell them there are different kinds of faults (strike-slip, normal, and reverse faults). If you have pictures of faults and fault ruptures, now is a good time to share them with your students.

What Governs Strike-Slip Fault Movement Geologists understand the mechanics of strike-slip faulting at the plate scale but up until now, the specifics of faulting on a very small scale haven't ...

Odds of the big one Unlike its famous west coast counterpart, the San Andreas Fault, the Ramapo Fault is now considered ...

The January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake occurred in the boundary region separating the Caribbean plate and the North America plate. This plate boundary is dominated by left-lateral strike slip ...

Strain localization and evolving kinematic efficiency of initiating strike-slip faults within wet kaolin experiments. Journal of Structural Geology, 2017; 101: 96 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2017.06.011 ...

The 6.7 magnitude Tamenglong earthquake, which occurred 40 km to the west of Imphal early on Monday, beneath the Indo-Burmese ranges, was due to strike-slip faulting in the complex plate boundary ...