A major fault located in Utah, USA, called the Wasatch Fault, is worrying scientists. It could cause larger earthquakes in ...

A new paper explains how the properties of fault rocks and geologic events that took place over a billion years ago could ...

(AP) — California geology officials have released an updated ... The map, which had not been updated since 1994, includes more than 50 surface fault lines discovered over the last two decades ...

Researchers explain why properties of fault rocks and geologic events that occurred more than a billion years ago portend worrisome seismic activity for Utah's population center. About 240 miles ...

the Portland Hills Fault, runs through the city of Portland. Ian Madin, a senior scientist and earthquake hazard geologist at the Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI), says the ...

Changes in fault strength are much harder to measure than changes in stress, especially for faults deep in the crust," said Taka'aki Taira of the University of California at Berkeley, in a statement.

a geophysicist with the Washington Geological Survey, said in a statement. "As this progressed, the tear fault got longer and longer." Related: Nearly 75% of the US is at risk from damaging ...