Yesterday’s 4.1 earthquake, according to Fisher, hit close to the Wheeler Gorge fault, making it a thrust fault. A thrust fault is where one side of rocks is pushed up and over others ...
The Chilean quake was a thrust earthquake, which occurs when a large section of the Earth's surface, in this case, the Nasca tectonic plate, dives beneath an adjacent plate. The fifth largest ...
Southern California experienced 15 seismic sequences with at least one magnitude 4 or higher earthquake — the highest total ...
"The results of the source mechanism analysis show that the earthquake has a thrust fault movement," he added. The earthquake was felt in Bula, Maluku, with an intensity scale of III MMI, with the ...