Continental transform faults evolve when two plates slide along each other. The most prominent examples are the San Andreas Fault in California and the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey. Earthquakes ...

We analyse the residual mantle Bouguer gravity anomaly (RMBA) from 19 oceanic transform fault systems and their adjacent ridge segments at ultraslow- to fast-spreading mid-ocean ridges (Supplementary ...

Forces acting inside the Earth have been constantly reshaping the continents and ocean basins over millions of years. What Alfred Wegener published as an idea in 1915 has finally been accepted since ...

A team of scientists from the GFZ German Centre for Geosciences in collaboration with the University of Southern California has now presented a global evaluation of observed maximum earthquakes along ...