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 ...

Figure 1: Seismic sequence related to the Blanco, 6.2 M w earthquake of June 2000. Figure 3: Variations in isothermal compressibility of seawater (at 3.2 wt% NaCl), with temperature and pressure 27,28 ...

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. (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 ...

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 ...

Along submarine mountain ranges, the mid-ocean ridges, forces from the Earth's interior push tectonic plates apart, forming new ocean floor and thus moving continents about. However, many features of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Beneath our feet, the ground is moving. Of course not very fast, but, geologists say the North American Plate is moving about an inch a year. Not only are we slowly moving, but ...