Scientists discover ultra-weak faults near the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Haiti that continued to slip for weeks.

A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major ...

AMHERST, Mass. – Geoscientist Michele Cooke and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst take an uncommon, "Earth is lazy" approach to modeling fault development in the crust that is ...

The Earth's crust may have something in common with a lot of people: It tends to be lazy, at least when it comes to moving along certain types of seismic faults, new research says. Using a special ...

It is a terrifying abyss, 7km deep. Now, geologists have for the first time seen and documented the Banda Detachment fault in eastern Indonesia - and worked out how it formed. It could lead to a ...