The Sierra Madre-Cucamonga thrust fault system lies along the base of the San Gabriel Mountains and may produce magnitude 7.5 earthquakes.

For decades, scientists have debated the structure of the Main Himalayan Thrust -- the fault responsible for a 2015 earthquake that killed nearly 9,000 people, injured 22,000, and destroyed ...

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After a massive earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka, a peninsula in the far east of Russia, on July 30, 2025, the world ...

B.C. scientists last week warned that a massive super-thrust earthquake is overdue to strike the province. Predicting earthquakes is a difficult proposition in the best of times, but British ...

The Gardiner thrust fault has been mapped in detail from the west side of Cinnabar Mountain, Montana, where it appears from under a cover of Tertiary volcanics, southeastward to a point 3 miles east ...

One of these models, for example, assumes that formation is related to tidal forces. In such a case, a concentration of thrust faults would be expected on the side facing the earth and on the far side ...

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.

While California’s 750-mile-long San Andreas Fault is notorious, experts believe a smaller fault line possesses a greater threat to lives and property in the southern part of the state ...