The Earth's tectonic plates have always slowly shifted over billions of years of our planet's history, carving out seas and pressing mountain ranges into existence. One change that is expected in the ...

We tend to think earthquakes are predominantly driven by deep-Earth forces. But in Kenya’s Lake Turkana Rift, researchers recently found that as surface water levels dropped roughly 100 to 150 meters ...

Ground fissures and tectonic faults represent critical structural features within sedimentary basins, where the interplay of regional stress fields, depositional environments and, at times, human ...

An aerial view of Lake Turkana, the world’s largest permanent desert lake. A recent study reveals that climate-driven fluctuations in lake levels can significantly influence fault activity in the ...