Contraction-related planetary landforms are mostly linked to thrust fault activity and are indicative of shortening, whereas extensional features are related to normal faults with the opposite ...

Thrust faulting earthquakes are an inherent occurrence in hydrocarbon-bearing active regions dominated by crustal shortening: they may be events generated by regional-scale tectonic processes, but ...

A large earthquake struck off Chile on April 1, 2014 at 23:46:46 UTC, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The magnitude 8.2 earthquake in northern Chile occurred as the result of thrust faulting ...

Countless seismic faults just as dangerous as the one that triggered Monday's San Simeon earthquake are suspected to be lurking throughout the Bay Area. Scientists have known about some of these ...

The April 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal killed more than 8,000 people and injured more than 21,000. With a magnitude of 7.8, it was the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 ...

It is a common trope in disaster movies: an earthquake strikes, causing the ground to rip open and swallow people and cars whole. The gaping earth might make for cinematic drama, but earthquake ...

As PG&E’s aging Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is up for a 20-year federal license renewal, one scientist cites new GPS data to suggest there’s a looming seismic threat from an active thrust fault ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. National Air and Space Museum planetary scientist Tom Watters describes how Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is revealing previously undetected ...

A new analysis suggests that the moon is actively shrinking and producing moonquakes along thousands of cliffs called thrust faults spread over the moon's surface. The faults are likely the result of ...

An 80 km-long unexplored subsurface detachment fold, the Eureka structure, exists in the southern Appalachian thrust belt just east of the Cumberland escarpment in eastern Tennessee. The Eureka ...