The San Andreas Fault has three sections. The southern part runs from the Salton Sea to Parkfield, California, and has the capability for giant quakes. In 1857, for instance, the magnitude-7.9 Fort Tejon quake shifted the bottom on the fault a whopping 29.5 toes (9 meters). The northern part of ...

In what could also be thought-about an excessive instance of liberal permissiveness, a latest courtroom case petitioned the Manhattan federal courtroom to overturn the present regulation as a way to allow a dad or mum to marry his/her youngster. One rabbi warns that the Torah explicitly describes the inevitable consequence ...

Glaciers in Southeast Alaska have been melting for the reason that finish of the Little Ice Age, a lot of that are in shut proximity to strike-slip faults. When these glaciers soften, the land begins to rise, and the faults they'd beforehand sutured turn out to be unclamped. On this ...

At a glacier close to the South Pole, earth scientists have discovered proof of a quiet, slow-motion fault slip that triggers robust, fast-slip earthquakes many miles away.

Sound generated by seismic occasions on the seabed can be utilized to find out the temperature of Earth's warming oceans.

Constantly observing animals with movement sensors may enhance earthquake prediction.

A brand new examine has discovered that tectonic plates beneath the Earth's floor can present various levels of roughness and will assist clarify why sure earthquakes are stronger than others.

Officers know the best way to account for deaths, accidents and property damages after the shaking stops, however a examine based mostly on a hypothetical 7.2 magnitude quake close to San Francisco, describes the primary method to estimate the far larger monetary fallout that such a catastrophe would have, particularly ...

A examine has shed new mild on the mechanisms via which earthquakes are triggered as much as 40km beneath the earth's floor.