constructive and conservative plate boundaries and how the plates move at each of these, with earthquakes occurring as a result of plate boundary movement. In 2010 a major earthquake caused ...

The first North Carolina-based earthquake this year hit Friday morning -- and then another one hit Saturday morning in the ...

Point Reyes sits right on the San Andreas Fault. The Olema Valley landscape has healed, and the fault line has been ...

Fault lines are fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates move past each other, often resulting in earthquakes ... found at divergent plate boundaries, such as mid-ocean ...

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and believe more people should know about.

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake was felt in General Nakar town in Quezon province on Tuesday morning, May 27, the Philippine ...

A new study has identified three states in the US could be hit by an earthquake and mega-tsunami in a handful of years.

A potentially first-of-its-kind video filmed on a solar farm captures the strike-slip motion of the recent 7.7 magnitude ...

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake has struck the city of Bengkulu in Indonesia this evening - with those near the epicentre warned ...

Seismologists know a lot about the mechanics of earthquakes and why they occur. What’s more difficult to determine, however, is how to predict future earthquakes. And while associating ...

It’s the slip-sliding motion of plate boundaries that triggers many earthquakes. California's San Andreas Fault, where the North American and Pacific tectonic plates grind past each other with a ...