Woods Hole, Mass. (April 11, 2025) - Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based on the evidence. In a new article published in ...

Continental transform faults evolve when two plates slide along each other. The most prominent examples are the San Andreas Fault in California and the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey. Earthquakes ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 19 (May 12, 2020), pp. 10188-10194 (7 pages) Oceanic transform faults display a unique combination of ...

Woods Hole, Mass. (February 12, 2024) – Studying a rock is like reading a book. The rock has a story to tell, says Frieder Klein, an associate scientist in the Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry ...

Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based on the evidence. In a new article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team ...

The oldest sections of transform faults, such as the North Anatolian Fault Zone and the San Andreas Fault, produce the largest earthquakes, putting important limits on the potential seismic hazard for ...

An apparent offset between the Marathon Mountains and the buried western extension of the Ouachita Mountains, and another between the Ouachita and southern Appalachian Mountains have been the subject ...

Before starting graduate school, University of Delaware doctoral student Melinda Bahruth said she never thought she would be on a research vessel or conducting geological research at sea. The Kansas ...

Sixty earthquakes — ranging from magnitude 3.4 to 5.8 — were recorded off the Oregon across Tuesday and Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said. The series of quakes is centered about 200 to 270 ...

A massive earthquake in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in 2016 ricocheted east then west like a geologic boomerang. Boomerang quakes have only been rarely anecdotally reported, and never before ...