Boulder, Colo., USA: In the Pacific Northwest, big faults like the Cascadian subduction zone located offshore, get a lot of attention. But big faults aren’t the only ones that pose significant hazards ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the biggest earthquake in more than a decade rattled Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula in July, seismologists around the ...

The geometric structure of rocks where earthquakes occur could play a key role in determining their location and strength, researchers have found. A study, carried out by geologists at Brown ...

Researchers studied quartz from the San Andreas Fault at the microscopic scale, the scale at which earthquake-triggering stresses originate. The results could one day lead to a better understanding of ...

A new collection of published papers offers the most detailed and comprehensive breakdown yet of how water injected into the Permian Basin during oil and gas operations is changing subsurface ...

Science X Science News Wire : Understanding faults and volcanics, plus life inside a rock -- a press release is provided to you ìas isî with little or no review from Science X staff.

Ground fissures and tectonic faults represent critical structural features within sedimentary basins, where the interplay of regional stress fields, depositional environments and, at times, human ...

Includes 0.53 gram per tonne ("g/t") stream sediment sample Defined new drill target area Acacia which is currently over 1.0 km of mineralized strike Highlights from sampling include 1.0 g/t and 0.6 g ...

The Wyoming State Geological Survey has digitized old maps of the Granite Mountains, shedding light on hidden geological ...