This vertical cliff consists of soft mud deposited on the Japan Trench bottom and was uplifted ~60 m by the 2011 megaquake. This was the first time that the fault scarp of a trench-type earthquake was ...

To further investigate the past movements along the fault, geologists excavated and mapped east-west trenches, including a 45-feet long, 23-feet deep trench excavated in 2004 at Carrizozo Springs, ...

The most broadly distributed contractional tectonic landforms on Mercury are lobate scarps 2,3,4,5. These scarps are the surface manifestation of thrust faults and are often hundreds of kilometres ...

Based on my research, which include image composites of two flyby views of Mercury from the MESSENGER spacecraft, I conclude that Mercury has not cooled and shrunken as much as previously thought.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) --Like Earth, Mercury is tectonically active. As evidenced by images captured by NASA's Messenger probe, Mercury's surface is host to fault scarps. The geologic phenomenon, ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The evidence was hidden beneath a typical Northwest tangle of second-growth forest and brush -- evidence of the massive quake that struck Seattle about 1,100 years ago. Until a few ...

Learn about the Tintina fault, which has been stirring for thousands of years and may hit the Yukon Territory with a major earthquake in the future. After 12,000 years of calm, a seismic outburst is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the best places to visualize the geological features known as the Balcones Escarpment and Balcones Fault is Mount Bonnell.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Over the past couple of decades there have been a few small earthquakes of magnitude 3 to 4 detected along the Tintina Fault, but ...