California is home to hundreds of faults. This partly explains why the state sees so many earthquakes. They can range wildly in size and shape. A fault is a fracture zone between two large blocks of ...
Daniel Trugman, assistant professor in the Nevada Seismological Laboratory (NSL), and Avigyan Chatterjee, doctoral student in the NSL, have published a research article in the journal Nature about how ...
The 4.8-magnitude earthquake on the East Coast Friday came from ancient dormant faults. The faults formed when two continents collided about 500 million years ago, creating the Appalachians and ...