The Monday quake and recent smaller earthquakes in the vicinity have placed renewed attention on the Puente Hills fault and ...

As a result, its brittle crust ruptured and thrust faults (compression) formed distinctive landforms known as lobate scarps. In a particularly dramatic example, a thrust fault pushed crustal ...

The Himalayan Orogen is characterized by a series of north-dipping thrust faults and shear zones formed as a result of the ongoing convergence of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates. The Main ...

The researchers measured the orientations of smaller faults that formed in the vicinity of the Liachar Thrust — a major fault where a massive slab of rock is being shoved upon another.