A USGS Earthquake Science Center Mobile Laser Scanning truck scans the surface rupture near the zone of maximum surface displacement of the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck the Ridgecrest area In ...

Riley Stearns' feature debut Faults is a taught and charismatic work, and also the latest film to tackle the subject of cults in a quietly earnest way. Like Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, and Sean ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie ...

California’s wildfire risk has increased in recent years because of climate change, drought, increased development in the wildland-urban interface and the significant buildup of fuel, including on ...

A company that monitors electrical activity says faults along the Los Angeles power grid skyrocketed in the same areas where three of this week’s major wildfires are currently raging. Bob Marshall, ...

The center of the U.S. saw earthquakes two centuries ago that were powerful enough to briefly reverse the flow of the Mississippi River. But unlike Californians, who must live with the specter of “the ...

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 ...