The earthquakes’ occurrence on the planet Earth is largely considered synonymous with disasters and people generally perceive geological faults as a threat to life and belongings. However, there are exceptions since a small community of earthquake researchers relate the occurrence of earthquakes with the lithospheric plate interactions where movement on faults causes earthquakes. Therefore, ...[Read More]
Faults and earthquakes as friends and not foes
Figure 1: The earthquakes with magnitude > 7 with a focal depth of 50 km are plotted on the satellite image to show the global distribution of earthquakes, and their relationship with the plate boundaries. The figure is created using the open-source application Natural Hazards Viewer of NOAA (2020), and data are obtained on 26th June 2020.
