Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A destroyed mosque amid rubble on February 20, 2023 in Hatay, Turkey after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit near Gaziantep, by a 7.5 ...

A new 3D subsurface model shows how variations in rock strength beneath the Marmara Sea could trigger future large ...

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer questions about the Balcones Escarpment and the Balcones Fault ...

Mount Denali, North America's highest mountain, is a beautiful sight. While beautiful, though, scientists have long wondered exactly how this mountain came to be. Now, new research has finally ...

An international survey effort headed by researchers from the University of Minnesota’s Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences (E&ES) accurately determined the age and formation of the East ...

New findings begin to fill major gaps in understanding about how geological faults behave and appear as they deepen, and they could eventually help lead future researchers to develop better earthquake ...

A swarm of small earthquakes within the Karoo Basin in South Africa has revealed a critically stressed fault that could be ...

An international team led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has, for the first time, accurately determined the age and formation process of the East Anatolian fault, which runs from eastern ...

The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike‑slip transform fault stretching roughly 1,200 km in California. It marks the tectonic boundary between the Pacific and North American Plates ...