Japan's Meteorological Agency says the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that jolted central Myanmar on Friday was caused by horizontal slips of land, called "strike-slip" faults.

The Denali Fault is a strike-slip fault, a place where two chunks ... This decrease in age is an effect of a phenomenon called inverted metamorphism, whereby rocks formed under high temperatures ...

Soon a little bit of foam rubber along the crack (the fault) will break and the two pieces will suddenly slip past each other. That sudden breaking of the foam rubber is the earthquake. That's what ...

many of the results are applicable to understanding of earthquake physics and effects for strike-slip earthquakes and transform fault settings worldwide.” The new study’s lead author—Luca ...