A new study suggests Southern California's major fault system is more stressed than at any point in the last 1,000 years.

This gradual accumulation and release of stress and strain is now referred to as the "elastic rebound theory" of earthquakes. Most earthquakes are the result of the sudden elastic rebound of ...

The San Andreas Fault and San Jacinto Fault Zone have reached their highest stress levels in 1,000 years, according to a study by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, leading scientists ...

A hidden network of earthquake faults running beneath Seattle may be far more active than scientists realized. New research reveals that smaller “secondary” faults in the Seattle Fault Zone appear to ...

A team led by Jay Patton of the California Geological Survey and Mark Hemphill-Haley, a Humboldt Geology Department professor ...

"The system is in a critically loaded state," lead author Liliane Burkhard, said in a statement on Wednesday, June 10 ...

The origin of large-scale tectonic extension in eastern Indonesia remains unresolved, as existing models do not account for the magnitude, spatial continuity, and kinematics of the observed ...

No major fault line has been identified around the capital, though experts warn that regional quakes and vulnerable buildings ...