Geological faults hold many secrets that may help us answer important questions about the nature of our planet and what ...

A research team made up of scientists from the U.S., Peru and France report on their analysis of GPS data from the 2007 Pisco quake in Peru. They found, in part, that 50 percent of the postseismic ...

Researchers say ubiquitous evidence for ongoing geological carbon sequestration in mantle rocks in the creeping sections of the San Andreas Fault is one underlying cause of aseismic creep along a ...

Keeping an eye on geological faults can be useful even long after they convulse in a great earthquake. By watching a Turkish fault after a deadly 1999 quake, geologists have pieced together a detailed ...

California's San Andreas Fault is famous for a reason - nearly 800 miles in length, it caused the notorious 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and could eventually unleash "The Big One." Its northern and ...

Last week I gave a walking tour of the Hayward fault along the Oakland-Berkeley border. Among other things, I talked about the fault’s peculiar behavior called aseismic creep, in which the two sides ...

I am a geophysicist and Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at CIRES. My research interests center around understanding shallow aseismic fault slip, predominantly bursts of aseismic creep known as creep ...

PASADENA, Calif.—On August 15, 2007, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck in Central Peru, killing more than 500 people—primarily in the town of Pisco, which was heavily damaged by the temblor—and ...

Woods Hole, MA - The San Andreas Fault in California is renowned for its large and infrequent earthquakes. However, some segments of the San Andreas Fault (SAF) instead are characterized by frequent ...

California’s San Andreas Fault is famous for a reason — nearly 800 miles in length, it caused the notorious 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and could eventually unleash “The Big One.” Its northern and ...