The North American craton actually dips near the Rockies rather than forming a sharp vertical step as previously believed.

Scientists are uncovering a hidden and surprisingly complex earthquake zone beneath Northern California by tracking swarms of ...

It was a groundbreaking discovery. Scientists have found previously concealed fault lines along California’s north coast, sparking concerns that we could be drastically underestimating the earthquake ...

Northern California’s coast keeps you on alert, even on quiet days. Offshore, three tectonic plates meet near Humboldt County ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

Three of the great tectonic plates that make up the Earth’s crust meet at the Mendocino Triple Junction, off the Humboldt ...

Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study ...

Rock climbers in Italy stumbled across evidence of what appears to be a sea turtle stampede that took place nearly 80 million ...

Researchers developed ShapKAN, a deep learning model integrated into the AI4Min-PE platform ( enabling instant prediction and ...

At this junction, the Pacific Plate moves northwest against the North American Plate, forming the San Andreas Fault, while the Gorda Plate subducts beneath the North American Plate. However, the ...

What appears to be such a pleasant meeting-place of the well-known rifts, in the Northern part of California, is proving to ...

A newly discovered fault complexity beneath America's most active earthquake zone raises the possibility that a major seismic ...