Researchers have discovered an unusual plume of magma beneath Oman that may have changed the course of the Indian tectonic ...

California's San Andreas Fault is capable of triggering a massive earthquake. Here's what to know about this famous location ...

The interpretations based on those data yielded the results: the two strong earthquakes had separate rupture zones ... segment of the main East Anatolian Fault (EAF), with 241 left-lateral ...

Natural laws ignore geopolitical issues, borders and conflicts: in the Middle East, millions of people live along the Dead Sea Fault, a major seismic hazard zone. And if in recent decades ...

This sinistral transform fault extends approximately 745 miles (1200 km) and connects the oceanic spreading zone of the Red Sea with the continental collision zone of the Caucasus and the East ...

around the Dead Sea fault zone, but the most intense shaking (magnitude 7.8) happened 24 seconds later when the rupture reached the East Anatolian fault zone (EAFZ). Some 7 hours later ...

The team notes that the initial quake occurred on the Dead Sea fault zone, but the largest quake happened when that energy moved to the East Anatolian fault zone. Click through to see their photos ...

The fault zone was the site of two devastating earthquakes ... There's been a lot of debate about the age of the Anatolian plate and the East Anatolian fault, but we were able to show with our ...

The earthquake sequence displaced numerous fault segments within the East Anatolian Fault zone. Early estimates indicate about 185 miles of fault length ruptured. Parts of the North Anatolian Fault ...