A new study suggests the San Andreas Fault has reached stress levels not seen in nearly 1,000 years. While scientists are not ...

The National Science Foundation funded work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could change the way we conceptualize oceanic transform faults. The Gofar fault ...

A new study suggests Southern California's major fault system is more stressed than at any point in the last 1,000 years.

Venezuela sits on one of South America's most active tectonic boundaries, where constant movement between major plates makes ...

A study of the 2025 Myanmar earthquake, published in Science, found that seemingly “simple” faults can behave in surprisingly complex ways. Small differences in how parts of a fault move over time may ...

Earthquake faults deep in the Earth can glue themselves back together following a seismic event, according to a new study led by researchers at the UC Davis. The work, published Nov. 19 in Science ...

The San Andreas Fault, long embedded in California’s public imagination, has once again drawn scientific attention after new ...

A common misconception about research is that it takes place in climate-controlled labs with microscopes, beakers, and Bunsen burners. While that is true for many fields, obtaining geoscience data can ...

A devastating earthquake in Myanmar is giving scientists new insight into how major quakes start, spread, and grow. The findings could improve risk estimates for dangerous faults around the world. A ...

Conventional studies suggest that faults in the shallow subsurface resist earthquake nucleation, because their frictional strength increases as slip accelerates (i.e., velocity-strengthening friction) ...