Two of the biggest fault lines in the world are synched together in a way that could lead to disastrous consequences, according to recent scientific analysis. This synchronization raises alarms about ...

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 ...