At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

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Federal cuts to the U.S. Geological Survey have prompted fears of losing vital information on earthquake activity and ...

Turkey straddles two major fault lines and is regularly hit by earthquakes. The residents of Istanbul, in particular, have been bracing for a major quake that experts have warned for years is ...

A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit near Mandalay, Myanmar, causing extensive damage and reaching Bangkok. The quake, originating from the Sagaing Fault, has resulted in significant fatalities ...

"They occur when there are stresses that build up in the Earth's crust, and the rocks essentially break along a fault," said ... Most of the world's earthquakes occur somewhere at the boundaries ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world ...