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The bold question-askers at What If examine the nearly impossible fault line conditions needed to trigger a magnitude 20 ...
An earthquake has struck California's Bay Area right along a fault line experts now fear may be the surprise cause of the long-awaited 'Big One.' The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the 3.2 ...
Today’s United States — its possibility, its strength, its divisiveness, its polarization and fragmentation — is encapsulated ...
The new fault line runs across Vancouver Island, close to the U.S. border, and poses a hazard to the region's 400,000 inhabitants, the study authors said.
This fault line reflects not only growing intergenerational tensions in US society, but also how the media approaches coverage of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.
A new paper in the journal Nature offers an explanation for why the major fault line is overdue for the Big One. By Thomas Fuller It has been about three centuries since the last great earthquake ...
A group of fault lines sit underground near Van Horn, Texas, dating up to 1.6 million years old, according to a map published by the USGS.
A full fault rupture, estimated to be around a 7.5 magnitude, could kill between 3,000 and 18,000 people, according to US Geological Survey and Southern California Earthquake Center.
Experts have predicted an earthquake could erupt, causing devastation to the Pacific Northwest area of the US after a crack was discovered in a 600-mile long fault line ...
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer. Norton, $28.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-393-08866-3 ...
Oklahoma has a series of fault lines that run through the state which have been mapped out by the US Geological Survey. The two which are most likely to affect the state are the Madrid Fault and ...
An earthquake has struck California's Bay Area right along a fault line experts now fear may be the surprise cause of the long-awaited 'Big One.'. The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the 3.2 ...