In a nutshell A 4.5 magnitude earthquake in Iran took just 17 minutes to transform from natural event to viral nuclear conspiracy, highlighting how scientific data can be misinterpreted during ...

Remind students of what they learned in Lesson 3: the outer part of the Earth ... are called faults. Tell them there are different kinds of faults (strike-slip, normal, and reverse faults).

Minutes after a magnitude 4.5 earthquake hit Iran on October 5, 2024, rumors swirled that it wasn’t natural—claims that ...

“In this case, the source was what we call a reverse fault − a motion associated with the Earth’s crust being crushed as the Arabian and Eurasian plates collide. Nuclear tests have very ...