As observed in Lesson 3, at low pressures and temperatures rock is a brittle material that will fail by fracture if the stresses become sufficiently large. When a lateral displacement takes place on a ...
NORFOLK, Va. — Fault lines are fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates move past each other, often resulting in earthquakes. These geological features are classified into three ...
Scientists discover ultra-weak faults near the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Haiti that continued to slip for weeks.
The central section of the famous San Andreas fault in California is characterized by a smooth and steady creeping motion, which safely releases energy and has reduced the chances of a big earthquake ...
The discovery of slow-slip phenomena has revolutionized our understanding of how faults accommodate relative plate motions. Faults were previously thought to relieve stress either through continuous ...
A single isolated, unblinking surveillance camera in Myanmar has done what five decades of seismological field observation were unable to: it captured, for the first time, live footage of an active ...
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Deep beneath the crust, a fault is ripping open the Earth not sliding like scientists insisted for years
In a dry expanse of central Turkey, researchers have uncovered unexpected signs of motion deep beneath the surface. For years, the region’s tectonic framework seemed well understood: a network of ...
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