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 ...

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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 ...

The Cascadia fault line is the focus of the new study conducted by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It breaks down the flooding potential a 9.0 earthquake could bring to the ...

“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 ...

“We have earthquakes ... lines and cuts across the Mississippi River in three places and the Ohio River in two places. The fault is active, averaging more than 200 measured events per year ...