At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

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While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and ...

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A massive 7.7 earthquake originating in Myanmar has collapsed buildings over 600 miles away in Bangkok, Thailand ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck near San Diego at 10:08 a.m. Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

LOS ANGELES — Below California's famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state's ...