Researchers from NOAA, U.S. Geological Survey and their partners have completed the first high-resolution, comprehensive mapping of one of the fastest moving underwater tectonic faults in the world, ...

The Pacific is ringed by a vast tectonic boundary that stretches for tens of thousands of kilometers, a shifting seam where plates grind, dive and tear past one another. That planetary-scale fault ...

The San Andreas Fault is the longest and fastest-moving, but over the next decade, Dr. Lucy Jones says it'll probably be one ...

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 three ...