This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Our understanding of the frequency of large earthquakes at timescales longer than instrumental and historical records is based mostly on ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It has long been a mystery why some earthquakes strike towns in seemingly earthquake-proof ...

The heartland of the United States lies within a tectonic plate, certain regions of which have experienced large and geologically recent earthquakes. Explanations for those events are still being ...

Boulder, CO, USA – A new volume published by the Geological Society of America sheds light on mysterious earthquakes in the interiors of continents. These earthquakes, like those that occur in the ...

University of Oklahoma researchers are working with Chinese colleagues to better understand intraplate earthquakes -- those occurring far from a tectonic plate boundary -- in an effort to minimize the ...

Earthquakes have long been associated with fault lines, jagged edges where tectonic plates meet and collide. Several studies explain how these seismic activities are not limited to these boundaries.

Scientists at the University of Kentucky and the University of Memphis may have learned why earthquakes often occur in places they aren’t usually expected. The slow, steady grind of tectonic plates ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Among the many mysteries of our planet’s geology is why earthquakes occur in the middle of presumably stable tectonic plates. A project led by a group of University of ...

California has borne the brunt of several deadly earthquakes, in part because of its famous San Andreas Fault (SAF), where two of the planet’s constantly moving tectonic plates move against each other ...

Two giant earthquakes in the eastern Indian Ocean have shown geologists that breaking up is easy to do — for tectonic plates, that is. The pair of quakes hit on April 11, startling seismologists with ...

The pre-Columbian Sinagua people, who occupied the land of present-day northern Arizona until about 1425, probably witnessed the final burst of volcanism in the San Francisco volcanic field. At some ...

Susceptibility of Bhadrachalam area to earthquakes, attributed to the Godavari rift valley, has been highlighted once again, underscoring the geological dynamics of the region. 3 quakes with magnitude ...