A recent study has revealed extensive data on how strike-slip faults develop over time and eventually cause earthquakes at the Earth's surface. Researchers coined the movement of two plates in a ...

This study was mainly conducted by Dr. Peng SHU (State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration), Dr. Xiwei Xu (National Institute of Natural Hazard ...

While most scientists assume that both sides of a geologic fault move equal distances during an earthquake, National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded researchers at Pennsylvania State University and ...

On the surface of many of the icy moons in our solar system, scientists have documented strike-slip faults, those that occur when fault walls move past one another sideways, as is the case at the San ...

Arthur G. Sylvester, a UC Santa Barbara professor emeritus of geological sciences who pioneered global understanding of strike-slip earthquake faults, published three books on southern California ...

Faulting in geology refers to the brittle deformation process that produces fractures (faults) along which measurable displacement has occurred within the Earth’s crust. It accommodates tectonic ...