Knowledge 3 main types of fault lines and how they form earthquakes Faults are classified into three main types: normal, reverse, and strike-slip faults.

Earthquakes occur more often than you think. Here’s what you need to know about where they usually happen and how they’re ...

Earthquakes can be like Jell-O. A simple, yet often used analogy is that if you’re sitting in a valley or basin it acts like a bowl of Jell-O and it will shake more than surrounding rock. But ...

You may not have realised this, even earthquakes can be divided by types. While most of the earthquakes are caused by the movement of the earth’s crust, not all are. HT Image Those which are ...

A new kind of earthquake has been detected in western Canada, one that shakes the ground slower and longer than typical seismic events. These earthquakes, recorded during hydraulic fracturing for ...

These earthquakes, recorded during hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas in British Columbia’s Montney Shale formation, challenge what scientists thought they knew about how injected fluids can ...

A major earthquake of magnitude 7.3 hit near Sand Point, Alaska, at 12:37 p.m. local time. This triggered a tsunami alert for parts of the Alaskan Peninsula. Coastal areas like Sand Point, Cold ...

Caught in the middle: Lombok and Bali are exposed to earthquake and tsunamis risk due to a tectonic plate boundary to the south, but also a unique zone of activity that thrusts to the north.

A devastating and violent type of earthquake once thought to be rare is actually much more common than previously thought, according to researchers at UCLA. They’re called supershear earthqua… ...