A geological fault is (in geology) a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement along the fractures. More simply put, it’s a ...

California, known for its seismic activity due to several geological faults such as the famous San Andreas Fault, has always experienced several small quakes most of them which can be either perceived ...

Fault scarps — linear “steps” in the ground formed when past large earthquakes (generally magnitude 6.5 and higher) ruptured the Earth’s surface along geologic faults — are one such ...