Many of Earth’s great earthquakes occur on thrust faults 1.These earthquakes predominantly occur within subduction zones, such as the 2011 moment magnitude 9.0 eathquake in Tohoku-Oki, Japan, or ...

Impact: The 1933 earthquake was Southern California’s deadliest in the modern record, leaving nearly 120 dead and causing $40 ...

Thrust faults have been the site of some of the world's largest quakes, such as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake off the coast of Japan, which damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

There is one silver lining: Unlike the San Andreas fault, which generates a big earthquake on average every 100 years or so, the Puente Hills thrust fault generates big quakes only every couple of ...

Earthquakes on thrust faults can spread 10 times farther to a second nearby thrust fault than previously thought. by University of California - Riverside ...

They are gigantic tremors that are newly forecast to occur along the faults that form the plate interface between the sub-ducting Philippines Sea Plate and the overriding Eurasian Plate, which ...

The Foothill Thrust Belt faults are deep under Silicon Valley, and researchers at Stanford found they’re capable of generating a magnitude 6.9 earthquake every 250 to 300 years.

The USGS has estimated that a major magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the San Andreas fault could kill about 1,800 people, while a ...

The USGS has estimated that a major magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the San Andreas fault could kill about 1,800 people, while a 7.5 magnitude quake on the Puente Hills thrust fault could kill as many ...