Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

The bold question-askers at What If examine the nearly impossible fault line conditions needed to trigger a magnitude 20 ...

Scientists have uncovered a rare slow-motion earthquake in Japan’s most tsunami-prone fault zone.

While rare, Redding does get earthquakes strong enough for us to feel. Here's why Shasta and Siskiyou counties and the north ...

They captured the event using advanced borehole sensors installed deep beneath the ocean floor in a region known as the ...

Two slow-motion earthquakes took several weeks to travel 20 miles along the fault. Each happened in places where geologic ...

Scientists for the first time have detected a slow slip earthquake in motion during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at ...

The Texas Railroad Commission had called for an emergency suspension of Blackbuck Resources’ water disposal well operations on May 13, after an earthquake with a record 5.4 magnitude struck West Texas ...

Turkey sits on top of major fault lines and earthquakes are frequent. In 2023, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed more than 53,000 people in Turkey and destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of ...

While West Texas has several fault lines, the earthquakes were likely caused by induced seismicity—earthquakes triggered by human activities, particularly oil and gas operations.

The strongest recent earthquake of the past 10 years in Texas occurred on Nov 16, 2022 14:32 MT. It had a magnitude of 5.4 and struck 147 miles east of El Paso, at a depth of 4 mi.

West Texas is not home to a single major fault line, but contains several faults. That includes the Permian Basin fault zone and the Balcones Fault Zone, making the region more prone to earthquakes.