A new paper explains how the properties of fault rocks and geologic events that took place over a billion years ago could ...

Minor quakes can disrupt natural tectonic patterns deep underground and change stress landscape, new study finds ...

At 4.1 magnitude near Greenback, the May 10 quake was large for our area. Experts look back on the last earthquakes to ...

When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath the Earth's surface, some faults move in near silence. These slow, shuffling slips and their accompanying hum ...

The numbers shift over time. There were 301 Tennessee earthquakes in 2018 but just 11 in 1994. The ground shakes when there is a sudden slip on a fault. The sudden slip releases energy in waves ...

When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath the Earth’s surface, some faults move in near silence. These slow, shuffling slips and their accompanying hum — ...

The 'groundbreaking' video makes for a bittersweet milestone amid thousands of casualties, injuries, and property losses.

A video going around the Internet at the moment in geologist circles appears to show what might be the first ever fault ...

When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath Earth's surface, some faults move in near silence. These slow, shuffling slips and their accompanying hum ...

"Originating along the Sagaing Fault, a 1,400-km-long [870-mile] dextral strike-slip boundary separating the Burma Microplate and Sunda Plate, the earthquake propagated a supershear rupture over ...