A fresh surface rupture of the Kekerengu fault, taken 4 days after the Kaikoura earthquake, with lead author Jesse Kearse leaning next to a curved slickenline (the subject of this article). Photo credit - Professor Tim Little (Victoria University of Wellington).

Curved slickenlines preserve the direction of rupture propagation

Tibetan Plateau

Folding faults and seismic risk in the Kunlun range, Northwest Tibet

San Andreas Fault

California’s current earthquake hiatus is an unlikely pause

San Andreas Fault

Signs of 1906 earthquake revealed in mapping of offshore northern San...

Carbon dioxide emissions can be securely stored in underground rocks, with minimal possibility of the gas escaping from fault lines back into the atmosphere, research by the University of Edinburgh has shown. Credit: Johannes Miocic

Fault lines are no barrier to safe storage of CO2 below...

A cartoon showing how anomalous earthquakes near the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in southern California work in regions deep below the Earth's surface.

Geoscientists find unexpected ‘deep creep’ near San Andreas, San Jacinto faults

San Andreas Fault

Site of the next major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault?

Parkfield Segment, San Andreas fault

Parkfield segment of San Andreas fault may host occasional large earthquakes

Three main types of faults

Fault Types : What are the three main types of faults?

What Is a Geologic Fault?

Study Confirms Large Earthquakes along Olympic Mountain Faults

Sampling of the active alpine fault in New Zealand reveals extreme...

Earthquakes can make thrust faults open violently and snap shut

Ventura fault could cause stronger shaking, new research finds

Alpine Fault theory takes shape

Biggest exposed fault on Earth discovered

Everest

Entire Himalayan arc can produce large earthquakes

San Andreas Fault

Two San Francisco-area earthquake faults found to be connected

New fault discovered in earthquake-prone Southern California region

The ripplocation phenomenon can help explain the behavior of materials when they bend and break — everything from a nanoscale material to massive geological formations.

How Nature’s ‘Dislocations’ Occur

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