For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer questions about the Balcones Escarpment and the Balcones Fault ...

In the Pacific Northwest, big faults like the Cascadian subduction zone located offshore, get a lot of attention. But big ...

Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study ...

A study on tectonic plates that converge on the Tibetan Plateau has shown that Earth's fault lines are far weaker and the ...

All around the world, from the Red Sea to the deep ocean ridges of the Atlantic, lurk more than a dozen geological misfits.

A thin, soft and slippery layer of clay-rich mud embedded in rock below the seafloor intensified the 2011 Japan earthquake ...

A proposal to raise taxes on the wealthiest Californians has sharply divided Democrats in the biggest blue state in the ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

Data from the USGS shows the seismic events have ranged in strength from 2.5 up to 4.2 in magnitude.

The project encompasses 286 mining cells totaling 4,576 hectares, located approximately 100 km east-northeast of Thunder Bay, ...