In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down ...

Peter R. Orszag, the C.E.O. of Lazard, discusses how markets are reacting to the uncertainty of Trump’s tariffs.

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

The area around Kanlaon Volcano in the Philippines was still under evacuation orders from an eruption in December​.

“It is an opportunity for us to reach out to the three constituencies we are involved in,” he said. Party chief Chee Soon Juan said the SDP’s key message this election is that the Government ...

It’s hard to say. Though the piece is nominally about Brower—the Archdruid of the title, who returns in subsequent installments in the three-part series—Park is an equally compelling ...

Myanmar lies on the boundary between two tectonic plates and is one of the world ... the biggest” to hit Myanmar’s mainland in three quarters of a century, Bill McGuire, another earthquake ...

The earth's upper layer is split into different sections, called tectonic plates, which are all moving ... as it can amplify ground motions three or four times over. He added: "However, there ...

The earthquake, which occurred along the Sagaing Fault, is attributed to the movement of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in ...

Authorities in Bangkok said deaths had occurred at three construction sites ... The Earth's crust is broken up into several pieces called tectonic plates, which fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.