A long rupture on the ground extending through infrastructure damage in Kumamoto Prefecture seems to confirm what seismologists had long feared: a major earthquake stemming from the active Hinagu ...

Something is shifting beneath our feet, and the scientific community is increasingly vocal about it. Across North America and beyond, seismologists have been raising alarms about fault systems that ...

A group of fault lines sit underground near Van Horn, Texas, dating up to 1.6 million years old, according to a map published by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) While the fault lines might have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ST. LOUIS – Earlier in the month, Missouri and nearby states saw a string of small earthquakes triggered along the New Madrid ...

Earthquake researchers believed for decades that rock friction within fault lines follows a simple relationship with temperature. However, a new study published by the Proceedings of the National ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A brand new 45-mile fault line has been discovered stretching along ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Earthquakes triggered by the notorious San Andreas Fault in California ...

There’s a reason the Tintina Fault in Canada has been largely ignored until now. It hasn’t done anything dramatic for about 12,000 years. No major quakes, no real headlines—just the occasional tremor ...

A little-known California fault line — already considered one of the most dangerous in the country — was rattled by another earthquake Thursday morning, shaking communities across the Bay Area and ...

This article is part of Shaky Ground, a collaborative reporting project between the Carlsbad Current-Argus and KRWG Public Media. A group of fault lines sit underground near Van Horn, Texas, dating up ...