California, known for its seismic activity due to several geological faults such as the famous San Andreas Fault, has always experienced several small quakes most of them which can be either perceived ...

Between the village of Abiquiú and the turnoff to Abiquiú Dam, U.S. 84 rises along a sandstone exposure and above the Rio ...

Researchers say ubiquitous evidence for ongoing geological carbon sequestration in mantle rocks in the creeping sections of the San Andreas Fault is one underlying cause of aseismic creep along a ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Scientists have completed the most detailed map yet of one of North America’s most spectacular geologic faults with the hope of providing a better understanding of the earthquake ...

Using rock samples collected from the Wasatch Fault, geoscientists combined experiments and analysis with examinations of fault rock textures. The team's research revealed significant clues about the ...

More than 1.1 billion years ago, an immense geological fault called the Midcontinent Rift began to form beneath what is now the U.S. Midwest. This massive rift stretches approximately 2,000 kilometers ...

MAGNA, Utah — It has been three years since a 5.7-magnitude earthquake rocked much of northern Utah. Then last summer, the Utah Geological Survey dug a long trench to study two faults on the west side ...

The Tintina, a major geologic fault that extends 1,000 km northwestward across much of the Yukon Territory, was thought to have been inactive for at least 40 million years, but new research led by a ...

NEW DELHI, Nov 24 (Reuters) - A tunnel which collapsed, trapping 41 workers in the Indian Himalayas this month, did not have an emergency exit and was built through a geological fault, a member of a ...

State geologists have concluded there is strong evidence that multiple earthquake faults run through the site of a controversial skyscraper development proposed for Hollywood, records obtained by The ...