It is a common trope in disaster movies: an earthquake strikes, causing the ground to rip open and swallow people and cars whole. The gaping earth might make for cinematic drama, but earthquake ...

Massive earthquake along Puente Hills thrust fault in Southern California could cause more damage than the predicted 'Big One' from the San Andreas Fault. Experts say a larger earthquake than the ...

Contraction-related planetary landforms are mostly linked to thrust fault activity and are indicative of shortening, whereas extensional features are related to normal faults with the opposite ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Recent earthquakes that have shaken California may be a result of a ...

In Japan and areas like the Pacific Northwest where megathrust earthquakes are common, scientists may be able to better forecast large quakes based on periodic increases and decreases in the rate of ...

Countless seismic faults just as dangerous as the one that triggered Monday's San Simeon earthquake are suspected to be lurking throughout the Bay Area. Scientists have known about some of these ...

Findings from a recently published paper led by Smithsonian senior scientist emeritus Thomas R. Watters reveal evidence that the south polar region of Earth’s moon has experienced the effects of the ...

Scientists thought the Wilmington blind‐thrust fault that runs deep under the Los Angeles region had been dormant since the Late Pliocene era, millions of years ago. But a new study reveals that it’s ...

This week's Friday Field Foto is a close-up view of the Keystone Thrust in southern Nevada. The key criterion for correctly recognizing a thrust fault is to demonstrate that there are older rocks on ...

As PG&E’s aging Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is up for a 20-year federal license renewal, one scientist cites new GPS data to suggest there’s a looming seismic threat from an active thrust fault ...

UPDATE: 6.4-magnitude earthquake jolts Northern California. A lesser-studied fault system along the western side of Silicon Valley could generate a magnitude 6.9 earthquake — the same size as 1989’s ...