A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

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 ...

Last Monday, April 14, an earthquake caught many people’s attention in Southern California. It was centered near the town of Julian about 35 miles inland from San Diego and triggered the USGS ...

The Blanco Transform Fault Zone off of Oregon's coast is famously active, and it has not disappointed in the past 24 hours, generating at least 50 earthquakes, including two at a 5.8 magnitude. That ...

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 ...