As observed in Lesson 3, at low pressures and temperatures rock is a brittle material that will fail by fracture if the stresses become sufficiently large. When a lateral displacement takes place on a ...

THE discovery of the Bogo Bay Fault Line has far-reaching implications for Cebu, as it paves the way for more accurate active ...

A study suggests that earthquakes on strike-slip faults can cause tsunamis in shallow bays even without an undersea landslide. Large tsunamis are generally attributed to earthquakes on normal and ...

A new study has attributed the root cause of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes to specific geological damage. A relatively large dip-slip displacement was discovered at the site. The Futagawa strike-slip ...

This study was mainly conducted by Dr. Peng SHU (State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration), Dr. Xiwei Xu (National Institute of Natural Hazard ...

Over the last several weeks, earthquakes have rocked parts of the United States from Alaska to Wednesday morning's quake in Tennessee. The most recent quake registered as a magnitude 4.4, just ...

To feel the earth move under your feet, visit New Zealand. Every year the sides of the island nation's Alpine Fault shift past one another about 30 millimeters—a blistering speed for strike-slip ...