A study on tectonic plates that converge on the Tibetan Plateau has shown that Earth's fault lines are far weaker and the ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists believed that Turkey's Tuz Gölü Fault moved sideways at a rate of 4.7 millimeters per year. Satellites orbiting Earth tracked this sideways sliding motion, and geologists built ...

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 ...

The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city of Christchurch also ripped a new fault line in the Earth's surface, a geologist said ...

Extending for 800 miles, the earthquake-prone San Andreas Fault in southern California has been relatively quiet lately. Deep below the surface, along the fault, however, there are hundreds of ...

Some geoscientists have taken an uncommon, “Earth is lazy” approach to modeling fault development in the crust and it is providing new insights into how faults grow. In particular, this group is ...