A new study published in the journal JGR Solid Earth has found that one U.S. state is “overdue” for an earthquake. Lead author Vasiliki Mouslopoulou believes that the information, while chilling, ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

According to a recent studypublished in JGR Solid Earth, nearly half of California’s fault lines—including the infamous San ...

According to researchers Christie Rowe of the University of Nevada ... seismic slip and slower post-earthquake creep. As one example, Rowe cites a 2014 earthquake near Napa, California, where nearly ...

At the Seismological Society of America’s Annual Meeting, researchers tackled a deceptively simple question: How wide are faults? Christie Rowe of the Nevada Seismological ... The 2014 Napa, ...

often resulting in earthquakes. These geological features are classified into three main types: normal, reverse, and strike-slip faults. Each type reflects different forces acting within the Earth ...

Daniel Trugman, an assistant professor at the Nevada Seismological Laboratory, said the two largest earthquakes occurred on normal faults. These kind of faults and orientation are abundant in Tosa ...

A magnitude-5.5 earthquake Monday afternoon rattled parts of Nevada and California ... first quake would then be called a foreshock. For example, the magnitude-9.1 Japan earthquake and tsunami ...

This process releases energy, and if the fault is big enough, it can also trigger earthquakes ... oceanic crust is being created. A prime example of normal faulting can be found in the East ...

Nevada is located on a single plate (the North American), nonetheless with faults capable of producing earthquakes in the 7-plus range, Bogolub said. Nevada’s 7 most powerful earthquakes The ...

Daniel Trugman, assistant professor in the Nevada Seismological Laboratory (NSL), and Avigyan Chatterjee, doctoral student in the NSL, have published a research article in the journal Nature about how ...