Midnight passage of the government shutdown package put in sharp focus the political fault lines emerging in Washington, as President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, House Speaker ...

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 ...

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

However, fault lines are emerging within progressive circles ... “While still in charge of the Senate and the White House, we must do all we can to safeguard our democracy,” Warren wrote ...

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Residents of the Oklahoma City metro area experienced a series of earthquakes late Friday and into Saturday morning. The strongest was a magnitude 4.4 according to the US Geological Survey.