Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study ...

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international research team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off ...

Researchers say ubiquitous evidence for ongoing geological carbon sequestration in mantle rocks in the creeping sections of the San Andreas Fault is one underlying cause of aseismic creep along a ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating earthquake risk at the Cascadia subduction zone.

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer questions about the Balcones Escarpment and the Balcones Fault ...

An earthquake along the southern Whidbey Island fault reshaped the land some 2,700 years ago. Another big one is expected, and it could be devastating. This is the first of three stories about a ...

MAGNA, Utah — It has been three years since a 5.7-magnitude earthquake rocked much of northern Utah. Then last summer, the Utah Geological Survey dug a long trench to study two faults on the west side ...

When the biggest earthquake in more than a decade rattled Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula in July, seismologists around the world knew within moments. For earthquakes big or small, sensors around ...

Geological engineers bridge the gap between geology and civil engineering, ensuring safe, sustainable interactions with the Earth through tasks like infrastructure design, resource exploration, ...

Revealing new data has pulled back the curtain on a network of "geological hazards" sitting beneath a portion of Yellowstone National Park, according to scientists studying the land in that region.