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 ...

The fault scarp found on the ocean floor is nearly vertical. Its height is the equivalent to a seven- or eight-story building, which is considered exceptionally large. A slope beneath the cliff was ...

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 ...

Small recreational vehicle driving the Dempster Highway near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Credit - Robert Postma/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group—Getty Images High up in Canada’s Yukon ...

Just off the highway near Washington’s Tri-Cities, 20 miles southeast of Pasco, Steve Angster steps into a giant trench. In it, the U.S. Geological Survey geologist is hoping to find evidence of a ...

HAMILTON, Mont. – A mapping method used to look at floodplains in the Bitterroot Valley turned up something unexpected: a new fault line that just might cross under the Lake Como Dam. Jeff Lonn, a ...

The border between the Grande Limagne and the Plateaux des Dômes is composed of numerous interrelated faults forming a series of prominent, if discontinuous scarps. The displacements began in ...

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.

This prominent lunar lobate thrust fault scarp is one of thousands discovered in Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) images. The fault scarp or cliff is like a stair-step in the lunar landscape ...

HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) — A mapping method used to look at floodplains in the Bitterroot Valley turned up something unexpected: a new fault line that just might cross under the Lake Como Dam. Jeff Lonn, ...