Cyclic changes of fluid pressure in fault zones can induce slow-slip events that advance in the direction of fluid flow, even when the faults are stable.

Plates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters per year. But when accumulated stress at these convergent ...

A geologist who has been working in the area of a rockslide that closed multiple highways in the McKenzie Junction area of ...

Now, scientists aim to get their clearest picture yet of the complex mechanics of our big-risk Hikurangi Subduction Zone – ...

In 2011, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a devastating tsunami, made particularly famous for ...

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Using the Chikyu vessel, researchers drilled nearly a kilometer below the seafloor at a depth of 7 kilometers, installing ...

Temple said the rockslide likely happened because of fractures in a geological fault zone, which runs directly beneath McKenzie Junction. “What has happened here is that we are on a major fault ...

A magnitude 2.8 earthquake rattled the Short Pump area northwest of Richmond on Tuesday evening, with people as far away as Fairfax County reporting they felt it, too, according to the U.S. Geological ...