A major California fault once thought to be stable is quietly shifting beneath neighborhoods, schools, and it could lead to a powerful quake with no warning. A new US geological (USGS) survey showed ...

The San Andreas Fault is California's longest and most famous fault. At this fracture zone, two plates of Earth's crust move past each other. It stretches from the Salton Sea in Southern California to ...

Sensors and observation instruments being lowered into a borehole off the coast of Japan nearly 1,500 feet below the seafloor during an International Ocean Discovery Program mission in 2016. Sensors ...

When a seismologist visited the site of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes two days after the event, he noticed something strange. Pebble- to boulder-sized rocks clearly had been moved by the earthquakes ...

That was not your imagination. Two earthquakes in less than a week have rattled more than the ground across North Jersey. Whenever an earthquake strikes, many may wonder what caused the earthquake and ...

The root cause of earthquakes are geographic features called faults, or fault lines, defined as a fracture between two blocks ...

We are on a planet that is constantly evolving day by day and the adverse phenomena caused by nature are becoming more and more evident, especially because of climate change. In th ...

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In the future, quantum computers could rapidly simulate new materials or help scientists develop faster machine-learning models, opening the door to many new possibilities. But these applications will ...