Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Normal fault: Independence Valley fault system: Nevada, United States: Normal fault: Active: 2008 Wells earthquake (M6.0) Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc subduction zone >2800: Micronesia: Subduction zone: Active: 1993 Guam (M7.8) Japan Trench: 1400: Off the coast of Honshu: Subduction zone: Active: see Seismicity of the Sanriku coast: Kabaw Fault ...
The Balcones Fault is in one of the lowest-risk zones for earthquakes in the United States. [ 6 ] The surface expression of the fault is the Balcones Escarpment, [ 7 ] which forms the eastern boundary of the Texas Hill Country and the western boundary of the Texas Coastal Plain, and consists of cliffs and cliff-like structures.
The New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid fault line (or fault zone or fault system), is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the Southern and Midwestern United States, stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri.
Earthquakes are common on the West Coast, with multiple plate boundaries like the San Andreas fault making geologic activity more likely. They are rarer on the East Coast, but they do happen ...
The warnings were put to use on Thursday when people in the northern portion of California were sent tsunami alerts moments after a 7.0 earthquake struck just off the coast of Humboldt county at ...
A fault off the Pacific coast could devastate Washington, Oregon and Northern California with a major earthquake and tsunami. Researchers mapped it comprehensively for the first time.
The earthquakes in this area primarily occur on buried faults between the Amarillo Uplift and the Anadarko Basin. [3]: 24 An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5–6.0 is expected to occur every 50–100 years in the Texas Panhandle, while an earthquake with a magnitude greater than 6.0 is expected to occur every 300 years. [5]
Nearly two months after the last notable earthquake, Lubbock and West Texas felt tremors from a 5.1-magnitude earthquake in Martin County Monday night. Here is what we know.