Earthquakes happen every day all over the world ... moving down relative to the footwall (where the miner would stand), which is moving up. Reverse faults are formed where the Earth’s crust is under ...

A new study reveals the likelihood of a future earthquake occurring along the Nevis-Cardrona Fault in western Otago is lower ...

See how they stick? Keep pushing and pulling smoothly. Soon a little bit of foam rubber along the crack (the fault) will break and the two pieces will suddenly slip past each other. That sudden ...

Major faults like the San Andreas strike fear of producing devastating earthquakes. But scientists have found that ...

The JMA said the focus of the earthquake was about 50 kilometers deep. It was a reverse-fault type earthquake that struck near the boundary between the Philippine Sea Plate and the Continental Plate.

NEW MADRID FAULT (MO-AR-KY-TN) — On this day in 1811, the natural disaster that became known as the New Madrid Earthquakes of ...

The powerful earthquake that struck in Northern California on Thursday prompted a brief tsunami warning affecting about 5 million people along a stretch of the West Coast — from Northern California to ...

"Most tsunamis, and the largest, result from earthquakes on reverse faults. These tsunami-generating earthquakes originate mainly in subduction zones, where tectonic plates collide and one is ...

Actually, all earthquakes are caused by slip on extended faults, and the bigger the quake the bigger the fault that ruptured," he told BBC News. "We can map those ruptures with satellites because ...