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Machu Pichu. Detailed mapping indicates the World Heritage Site’s location and layout were dictated by the underlying geological faults. Photo taken 5 Nov. 2010; credit: Rualdo Menegat.

Machu Picchu: Ancient Incan sanctuary intentionally built on faults

September 27, 2019

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

July 14, 2019

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

April 19, 2019

California’s current earthquake hiatus is an unlikely pause

April 3, 2019

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

March 28, 2019

Roman monuments, including the Colosseum

Seemingly dormant geologic fault damaged famous Roman buildings 1,500 years ago

March 5, 2019

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...

January 27, 2019

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

September 19, 2018

‘Slow earthquakes’ on San Andreas Fault increase risk of large quakes

June 21, 2018

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

June 21, 2018

Parkfield segment of San Andreas fault may host occasional large earthquakes

November 30, 2017

The post-2008 seismicity has occurred both in areas that were seismically active before 2008 (for example, the Mississippi embayment) and in regions with no pre-2008 historical or instrumental seismicity (for example, FWB).

Research shows North Texas earthquakes occurring on ‘dead’ faults

November 30, 2017

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

October 17, 2017

What Is a Geologic Fault?

October 16, 2017

Study Confirms Large Earthquakes along Olympic Mountain Faults

September 29, 2017

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

August 31, 2017

Foreshock activities leading up to Pawnee earthquake

July 14, 2017

How Strike-Slip Faults Form, the Origin of Earthquakes

July 7, 2017

Faulted Sedimentary Rock Layers, Guatemala

June 24, 2017

Signs of past California ‘mega-quakes’ show danger of the Big One...

June 21, 2017

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