they are due to the same forces that cause earthquakes along plate boundaries. Faults are defined by the kind of motion that happens where they are. Normal faults show cracks where one block of rock ...

Strike-slip earthquakes occur on strike-slip faults, normal earthquakes occur on normal faults, and thrust earthquakes occur on thrust or reverse faults. When an earthquake occurs on one of these ...

The earthquake struck at 7.46 p.m. PT about three miles northwest of Dublin, California, at a depth of around seven miles, ...

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each plate, called fault stress. When this stress builds enough ...

From Napa to Santa Cruz, people felt the jolt of a 3.9 earthquake Monday. The epicenter was near Dublin on the Calaveras ...