From Napa to Santa Cruz, people felt the jolt of a 3.9 earthquake Monday. The epicenter was near the Calaveras fault. We take ...

The myth holds that small earthquakes relieve stress from a fault to the point that it prevents a larger earthquake from happening in the future. However, Tobin said that’s not how faults work.

In regions where tectonic stress is already high, these fluctuations might serve as the final push needed to trigger an ...

Subduction zone earthquakes: This earthquake results from the tension of an oceanic plate slipping beneath a continental ...

Solar-driven temperature shifts alter rock properties and underground water movement, potentially making the Earth’s crust ...

A research team in Japan has warned that unreleased stress energy at an undersea trench off northern Japan has become large ...

Recent earthquakes in the region may have raised the threat of an earthquake occurring near the Cayman Islands, according to ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The properties of rocks in fault zones significantly influence earthquake generation, alongside fault stress. In the eastern Kanto region of Japan, where the ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown 14 ...

Earthquakes occur as a result of the constant—but, to us, imperceptibly slow—movement of tectonic plates across the Earth's surface, which causes stress to build up in the crust. When this ...