/channels/news_feeds/all/term/tectonic%20faults/rss en /channels/channels/news/new-study-finds-connection-between-fault-roughness-and-magnitude-earthquakes-321820 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A new study led by ±«ÓăÖ±²¥ has found that tectonic plates beneath the Earth’s surface can show varying degrees of roughness and could help explain why certain earthquakes are stronger than others.</p> <p>Earthquakes happen when the rocks beneath the Earth’s surface break along geological fault lines and slide past each other. The properties of these faults - such as the roughness of their surface - can have an influence on the size of seismic events, however their study has been challenging because they are buried deep beneath the Earth’s surface.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/fault_roughness_1200.png?itok=VyPkiOKU" width="160" height="88" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">24 </span><span class="month">April </span><span class="year">2020</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:53:15 +0000 webfull 160321 at /channels