The giant earthquake that ripped through central Myanmar earlier this year did something seismologists rarely see: it slid ...

In our lifetime, and for many generations to come, San Diego and Southern California will reside near the San Andreas Fault system, which divides the North American tectonic plate from the Pacific ...

An analysis of the response of buried continuous pipelines to active faults has led to development of a design guideline for both onshore and offshore pipelines at fault crossings. A fault movement ...

The death toll from Myanmar’s powerful earthquake continued to rise on Sunday as international rescue teams and aid poured into the crisis-hit nation. Overwhelmed hospitals and resource-strapped ...

A recent study published in Nature Geoscience reveals large-scale vertical motion across the San Andreas Fault System. The research team, headed by Samuel Howell at the University of Hawai'i, was able ...

Over the last several weeks, earthquakes have rocked parts of the United States from Alaska to Wednesday morning's quake in Tennessee. The most recent quake registered as a magnitude 4.4, just ...

California won’t fall into the ocean, but it could get nudged hundreds of miles offshore, making Nevada the new coastline of the continent, scientists at the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology at the ...