Earthquakes occur more often than you think. Here’s what you need to know about where they usually happen and how they’re ...

A reverse is, well, just the reverse. An example of a normal fault is the 150-mile-long (240-kilometer-long) Wasatch Fault underlying parts of Utah and Idaho, again caused by the Pacific plate ...

Those small reversal incidents are earthquakes showing reverse faults—something that has long puzzled seismologists and those who study the ocean floor.

New research suggests that a newly-discovered 'structure' in the San Andreas fault line could result in a massive earthquake, often referred to as the "big one." ...

Three examples of these smaller basins that formed during early evolution of the Altyn Tagh fault system are the Xorkol, Aksay, and Subei basins. The Xorkol basin was the site of nonmarine ...