EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Nearly one week after a magnitude 5.4 earthquake shook the Borderland, experts are revealing what may have caused it. The quake hit Saturday night, with a preliminary ...

Earthquakes have long been associated with fault lines, jagged edges where tectonic plates meet and collide. Several studies explain how these seismic activities are not limited to these boundaries.

A drilling rig used for fracking. Oklahoma, Ohio and Arkansas have experienced an unusually large number of earthquakes in recent years. The shaking is rising at the same time that oil and gas ...

Scientists aboard IODP scientific drilling vessel Chikyu collected 5,000 samples from the seismogenic zone known as the Nankai Trough. The samples will provide scientists with new sources of data and ...

PALISADES, N.Y. — The discovery of a new fault line may explain the unusually strong and displaced shaking from April’s magnitude 4.8 quake that struck the heart of New Jersey, yet was felt the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A new explanation for colliding faults could help explain mysterious fault lines that have mystified geologists for decades. The new explanation could explain everything from the quake ...

Study author Won-Young Kim with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory says research has discovered a new fault line under New Jersey that helps explain the unusual spread of shaking during the 4.8 ...