When an ancient and smooth seismic fault releases all its energy at once, the consequences are spectacular. The magnitude 7.7 ...

"Over that vast time, the rough edges and bends in the fault have been ground down," first author Eric Lindsey, a ...

A deep earthquake in Chile surprised scientists by using heat to grow stronger far underground and cause serious surface ...

A video going around the Internet at the moment in geologist circles appears to show what might be the first ever fault movement caught on camera. On March 28, 2025, the city of Mandalay, Myanmar was ...

A “rupture” in the ground has been discovered in the North Carolina community that saw widespread damage during a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in 2020, according to a peer-reviewed scientific paper ...

A striking video captured in Myanmar during March’s devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake shows what scientists believe may be a first-of-its-kind recording of a surface fault rupture, the visible ...

Surface ruptures along a fault line two days after deadly earthquakes Drone footage shows a surface rupture in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, just two days after deadly earthquakes hit the area. See the ...

1:250,000 active faults were obtained from Emre et al. (2012). The seismogenic faults of historical earthquakes were sourced from Duman and Emre (2013). Earthquake catalog was obtained from USGS (2023 ...

A sonic boom-like seismic phenomenon of supershear rupture occurred during the 2018 Palu earthquake in Indonesia. Researchers investigated the relationship between this phenomenon and the complex ...