When faults rupture during earthquakes, hot geologic fluids—sometimes containing gold particles— rush into the cracks, cool, and form gold-rich quartz veins.

THE character of earthquakes, that is, of the disturbance which can be felt and causes damage, has long been established as a form of elastic wave motion, originated by some sudden disturbance in ...

The 1969 earthquake that shook Lisbon and other regions of Portugal and the 1755 'Great Earthquake' originated in the ...

LA PAZ COUNTY, AZ - Saturday evening, a 2.5 magnitude quake was registered near Aguila, according to the U.S. Geological ...

The crust above buckles and splits as the magma lifts it into the air, peeling it from the mantle beneath. Mountains form, ...

Scientists have uncovered that earthquakes and electric forces could be the key to forming large nuggets of gold.

Stumbling on a giant gold nugget and never working again is something we’ve all daydreamed about, but how exactly do they form? A new experiment has found that earthquakes and electricity might ...