Handful of lava pebbles thrown into the air. A new study shows how strong shaking at a fault has rocks—briefly—defying gravity. When Julian Lozos, a seismologist at California State University, ...

Earth's surface is covered by more than a dozen tectonic plates, and in subduction zones around the world—including the Japanese Islands—plates converge and dense oceanic plates sink into Earth's ...

About 240 miles long, Utah's Wasatch Fault stretches along the western edge of the Wasatch Mountains from southern Idaho to central Utah, running through Salt Lake City and the state's other ...

Osaka, Japan — Slow earthquakes have been discovered to exhibit anomalously slow, long-lasting and small slips, adjacent to regular earthquakes where we sometimes feel catastrophic vibration (Fig. 1).

Researchers reveal grain boundary sliding as a formation mechanism for the crystal preferred orientation of antigorite and elucidate the formation and development of B-type antigorite CPO patterns.