California is home to hundreds of faults. This partly explains why the state sees so many earthquakes. They can range wildly in size and shape. A fault is a fracture zone between two large blocks of ...

As observed in Lesson 3, at low pressures and temperatures rock is a brittle material that will fail by fracture if the stresses become sufficiently large. When a lateral displacement takes place on a ...

Daniel Trugman, assistant professor in the Nevada Seismological Laboratory (NSL), and Avigyan Chatterjee, doctoral student in the NSL, have published a research article in the journal Nature about how ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Two opposite types of faults, normal and reverse, help explain our undersea mountain ...

“The development of differential fault analysis (DFA) techniques and mechanisms to inject faults into cryptographic circuits brings with it the need to use protection mechanisms that guarantee the ...