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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...