Recent paleoseismic work has documented four surface-rupturing earthquakes that occurred across the Santa Cruz Mountains section of the San Andreas Fault (SAF) in the past 500 years. The research, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to new research, the Denali Fault is actually an ancient suture mark where two land masses once joined together. Between ...

Like a subterranean knife-wound, the Elsinore Fault slices across the heart of San Diego County's backcountry, promising an earth-shaking jolt or two during the next few centuries. Sputtering ...

The Rocky Mountains extend from British Columbia south to the US state of New Mexico Scientists at Idaho State University have mapped a new, active seismic fault in the Rocky Mountains in the US state ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skiers travel down a slope in the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area after record snowfall from winter storms in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., on ...

(Jackson Hole, Wyo.) A team of geologists arrives in Jackson Hole, Wyo. this week to continue studies of the movement of mountains. "Are the Tetons getting higher? Or is Jackson Hole getting lower?" ...

POCATELLO — While looking at a highly detailed new topographic image of Idaho’s Sawtooth Range, Idaho State University geosciences professor Glenn Thackray had an “eureka moment” when he discovered a ...

Mountain building, also known as orogenesis, is a geological process that involves the formation and uplift of large, elevated landforms, known as mountains. The term "orogenesis" comes from Greek ...

New research studies indicate that the Santa Cruz region produces large earthquakes more frequently than previously thought. Recent paleoseismic work has documented four surface-rupturing earthquakes ...

The Rocky Mountains extend from British Columbia south to the US state of New Mexico Scientists at Idaho State University have mapped a new, active seismic fault in the Rocky Mountains in the US state ...