The magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar on 28 March 2025 showed unusually fast rupture velocity, which is known as a supershear rupture. The recent study of Felipe Vera from GFZ Helmholtz Centre for ...

The five largest continental transform earthquakes since 2000 all originated on a branch of the main fault—and two researchers predict that the next great earthquake of this type will also get ...

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—called ...

The main fault basically runs northeast to southwest, but some preliminary data indicated the initial quake in early April had a north-south movement, suggesting the trembler may have occurred on ...

Both quakes occurred on the San Andreas, the 800-mile-long fault that traverses California from north to south. The geological survey estimates that there is about a 30 percent chance of a 7.5 ...

As the name suggests, a branch fault is a minor fault that branches off from a major fault. In the US, the 2002 magnitude 7.9 Denali earthquake that struck Alaska originated on a branch fault.

The East Coast is crisscrossed with ancient faults, including the Ramapo Fault that runs through southeastern New York.