By bnm Tehran bureau A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Sarkheh in Iran's Semnan province on June 20 at 21:19 local time, ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Fault lines are fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates move past each other, often resulting in earthquakes. These geological features are classified into ...

Over time, movement of tectonic plates along a fault line smashes and shears rocks within a zone that extends roughly 330 feet around the fault, Stein explained. This damage creates a type of rock ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

But the places most often rocked by them are those closest to major fault lines, where different tectonic plates meet. “The crust has several pieces,” Dr Fatahi said. “The line between each ...

Most earthquakes happen along fault lines, which are the boundaries between tectonic plates. Here in California, we have the San Andreas Fault. It forms the boundary between the Pacific and North ...

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a tectonically active region with frequent earthquakes and volcanoes, spanning 40,000 km around ...

KARACHI: The port city experienced three more earthquake tremors with intensity ranging from 2 to 3.1 magnitude on Tuesday night, according to the Seismic Monitoring Centre of the ...

Because of this, regions on or close to where tectonic plates meet, called fault lines, are prone to earthquakes. Myanmar sits on the Sagaing Fault, which runs north-south through the center of ...

An earthquake of magnitude 3.8 on the Richter Scale struck Afghanistan on Sunday, a statement by the National Center for ...

According to Dr. Velasco, this has led to the weakening of an ancient fault located well below the Earth's surface. There's a formation that we call the pay zone. That's where they do the fracking ...

Over time, movement of tectonic plates along a fault line smashes and shears rocks within a zone that extends roughly 330 feet around the fault, Stein explained. This damage creates a type of rock ...