At the Macmillan Dictionary blog, the ever-thoughtful Stan Carey has a post on fault-finding in language, in which he explains how the impulse to correct errors may “target the wrong people.” ...

Scientists are surveying "mass wasting," a unique geological phenomenon of the Red Sea, to identify active fault-line activity along fossil coral reefs and sediment levels. They say that their ...

When a flaw or a mistake is made about something or someone, what happens next is quite interesting and important to understand. First, one might admit the truth of a blunder. Then, if possible, begin ...

New modeling and analyses of fault geometry in the Earth's crust by geoscientist are advancing knowledge about fault development in regions where one geologic plate slides past or over another, such ...

Scientists and the oil and gas industry have known about induced seismicity, or induced earthquakes, since the 1960s. One early and telling example was the disposal of warfare chemical waste in a deep ...

Scientists in Southern California believe they’ve found evidence that finally identifies the source of one of the largest quakes since the region was settled. The clues also permit the researchers to ...

ON DEC. 4, 1811, an enormous cataclysm shook the central United States. It happened again six weeks later, on Jan. 23, and again Feb. 7. Most scientists say that each of the three had magnitudes ...

In the wake of the devastating loss of life in Japan, the urgent question is where the next big earthquake will hit. To answer it, geologist Prof. Zvi Ben-Avraham and his doctoral student Gal Hartman ...