The National Science Foundation funded work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could change the way we conceptualize oceanic transform faults. The Gofar fault ...

Seismologists have a term they use carefully: a "seismic gap." It refers to a section of an active fault that has gone quiet ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presents a never-before-seen image of an oceanic transform fault from ...

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 underground laboratory in Nevada where the U.S. conducts nuclear subcritical experiments is riddled with faults.

A famous possession in which California takes no particular pride is the San Andreas Fault, a great crack in the bedrock that leads from the Mexican border to Point Arena, no miles northwest of San ...