Unlike gradual climate-driven events, this potential earthquake ... the fault line, are vulnerable because of their seismic and volcanic profiles. There also has not been a quake of large seismic ...

The region sits atop an ancient fault line, a pre-existing weakness in ... that it might lead to groundwater contamination and earthquakes. Texas, another major fracking state, has also ...

At 4.1 magnitude near Greenback, the May 10 quake was large for our area. Experts look back on the last earthquakes to ...

Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault ...

The numbers shift over time. There were 301 Tennessee earthquakes in 2018 but just 11 in 1994. The ground shakes when there is a sudden slip on a fault. The sudden slip releases energy in waves ...

A defiant oilfield disposal company that continued to inject wastewater deep underground in an area of West Texas plagued by earthquakes ... overlays a system of faults being triggered as the ...

And because small earthquakes happen far more often than large ones, they may constantly jostle the system out of synchrony. Over time, this could explain why some segments of a fault show highly ...

Experts are 'fairly confident that there could be a pretty large ... another fault line in California, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which they believe could also produce a powerful earthquake ...

LOS ANGELES -- Could a monster earthquake sink a portion of Northern California? A new study calculates the risk of where and how much land could sink. The Cascadia fault line is the focus of the ...

A large crack appears in the driveway ... a video of the shift could help researchers understand how and when fault slips occur alongside other earthquake phenomena, like shaking and rolling.

“This is the first (and currently only) known instance of a fault line motion being captured ... a throughgoing surface rupture of a very large earthquake,” Rick Aster, a geophysicist at ...