NORFOLK, Va. — Fault lines are fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates move past each other, often resulting in earthquakes. These geological features are classified into three ...

Earthquakes happen due to sudden movement of tectonic plates and stress release along fault lines beneath the Earth’s crust.

Ground fissures and tectonic faults represent critical structural features within sedimentary basins, where the interplay of regional stress fields, depositional environments and, at times, human ...

Earthquakes have long been associated with fault lines, jagged edges where tectonic plates meet and collide. Several studies explain how these seismic activities are not limited to these boundaries.

Over here in the Midwest, we're much more familiar with tornadoes, floods, freezes and other severe weather incidents. Earthquakes remain an afterthought — but they're not impossible. According to the ...

Jessica DePaolis (second from left) and the team of researchers studied and compared sedimentary core samples in Montague Island, Alaska, and found evidence that four of the past eight earthquakes ...

Take yourself back to fifth-grade science for a second. You might have learned that earthquakes are caused by the sudden movement of big, underground sheets of rock, called tectonic plates. Your ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy. The ...

The map highlights in yellow the zones of the Pacific Plate that are being pulled apart by the sinking tectonic plate along the Pacific Ring of Fire. TORONTO, ON – New research led by a team of ...

On August 16, 2012, residents of the tiny Dutch village of Huizinge were rattled by an inexplicably large 3.6 magnitude earthquake. Gas extraction in the nearby Groningen gas field, one of the largest ...