For example, boundary type A might be described as having shallow earthquakes on the plate boundary, sparse or no volcanoes, lying on a topographic high, and following a line of young sea floor.

Following the tremor, the US Tsunami Warning System issued a tsunami warning for parts of coastal Alaska. Authorities have ...

Borehole sensors were placed to detect slow-motion seismic event “It’s like a ripple moving across the plate interface,” said Josh Edgington, who conducted the work as a doc ...

Scientists have discovered slow-moving low-frequency tremors which occur at the shallow subduction plate boundary in Hyuga-nada, ... However, after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, ...

Earthquakes are often amazingly ... Unfortunately for them, Greece sits in one the most earthquake prone areas of the world, situated in a boundary region between 3 ... A shallow focus (usually ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 struck Nepal and it occurred at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers. The country is highly ...

Shallow earthquakes, ... one near the 2004 magnitude 6.0 Parkfield earthquake and one near the northern boundary of the Fort Tejon rupture, just south of Cholame.

Transform boundaries are also associated with shallow quakes. Some strike-slip earthquakes can really transform the earth, in quite measurable ways, such the magnitude 7.2 Baja California ...

Scientists discover enormous pockets of salty brine beneath the Pacific Ocean, key to understanding periodic underwater ...

In their analysis, the seismologists also identified two clusters of small earthquakes, one near the 2004 magnitude 6.0 Parkfield earthquake and one near the northern boundary of the Fort Tejon ...