In a particularly dramatic example, a thrust fault pushed crustal materials (arrows) up the side of the farside impact crater named Gregory (2.1°N, 128.1°E).

The Moon has long been thought to be the prototypical example of a dead world. That may be much less true than expected, given the recent discovery of "moonquakes" with matching scarp fault ...

Therefore, while the San Andreas fault may generate more powerful earthquakes—up to magnitudes of around 8.0 or even higher—the location of the Puente Hills thrust fault makes it a major hazard.

More small faults could be buried underground and just haven't revealed themselves yet. So the latest observation of a buried thrust fault within the city "shouldn't come as any big surprise ...

Preliminary data suggest Friday night’s 5.1 magnitude earthquake near La Habra occurred on the Puente Hills thrust fault, which stretches from the San Gabriel Valley to downtown Los Angeles and ...

Millions of people are directly on top of the Puente Hills Thrust Fault where this week’s earthquake fell. Alex Rozier reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, August 13, 2024.

The Puente Hills thrust fault was discovered only recently — in 1999 — by John Shaw of Harvard University and Peter Shearer of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, who ...

The Wilmington fault’s structure is similar to the source of the 1994 Northridge earthquake, researchers learned. That 6.7 quake killed 57 people, injured thousands more and caused $20 billion ...