Not all earthquake faults behave the same. Some stick and snap, causing earthquakes. Others move slowly over time.

Scientists have discovered a long hidden plate boundary near the east coast of Africa that dates back about 180 million years ...

Researchers have found that one of the US’ most dangerous fault lines is overdue for an earthquake, potentially threatening ...

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, LA (WVUE) - The evidence is purely circumstantial, but geologist Chris McLindon believes a levee that breached in Plaquemines Parish last week may have been the victim of a fault ...

The Hayward fault, part of the larger San Andreas fault system, runs 74 miles through the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay ...

AMHERST, Mass. – Geoscientist Michele Cooke and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst take an uncommon, "Earth is lazy" approach to modeling fault development in the crust that is ...

The Earth's crust may have something in common with a lot of people: It tends to be lazy, at least when it comes to moving along certain types of seismic faults, new research says. Using a special ...

California’s wildfire risk has increased in recent years because of climate change, drought, increased development in the wildland-urban interface and the significant buildup of fuel, including on ...