The National Science Foundation funded work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could change the way we conceptualize oceanic transform faults. The Gofar fault ...

Deep beneath the Pacific, one undersea fault has produced nearly identical magnitude 6 earthquakes every few years for ...

University of Delaware geologist Jessica Warren has contributed to research that brings us one step closer to better ...

Scientists have finally explained why a Pacific Ocean fault has been generating repeating “clockwork” earthquakes for decades ...

The middle section of the San Andreas Fault may have the capacity to host larger earthquakes than previously believed. Between the towns of Parkfield and Hollister, the famous California fault ...

Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, roughly a thousand miles off the coast of Ecuador, the seafloor has been keeping time ...

(Jiojio/Moment/Getty Images) For more than three decades, experts have been trying to solve the mystery of why a certain kind of underwater fault triggers earthquakes way more predictably than others.

Scientists have identified natural "brakes" within the Gofar transform fault, located deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Geological faults hold many secrets that may help us answer important questions about the nature of our planet and what ...

A new twist on the San Andreas fault could shake up southern Californians preparing for the Big One. The southern San Andreas isn’t vertical in most places, as previously thought. Instead, it twists ...

It's impossible to know when the San Andreas Fault will erupt with its next big earthquake — a temblor that could impact the nearly 13 million people who live in the Los Angeles metro area — but it ...