On September 4, 2022, Hayato Ueda, a geologist at Niigata University, boarded a submarine vehicle with pilot, Chris May, and took a dive into the Japan Trench within the epicenter area of the 2011 ...

The pattern of degradation observed on some scarps formed by normal, range-front faulting of alluvial fan surfaces may be accurately modeled, and, when properly calibrated, these models provide a ...

HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) — 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, ...

Learn about the Tintina fault, which has been stirring for thousands of years and may hit the Yukon Territory with a major earthquake in the future. After 12,000 years of calm, a seismic outburst is ...

The Alpine Fault scarp crosses fields near Haast before heading southwest into isolated country and finally going out to sea at the mouth of Milford Sound. Photo: PAUL GORMAN / Fairfax NZ Prefer us on ...

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 ...

New research led by the University of Victoria (UVic) has illuminated a significant and previously unrecognized source of seismic hazard for the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada. The Tintina ...

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Just off the highway near Washington's Tri-Cities, 20 miles southeast of Pasco, Steve Angster steps into a giant trench. In it, the U.S. Geological Survey geologist is hoping to find evidence of a ...