A strike-slip fault is when two blocks slip past one another, like the San Andreas Fault line. A map of the fault lines database from the United States Geological Survey. A map of the fault lines ...

Georgia still has a number of fault lines, though. That’s where most earthquakes occur. The Brevard Fault Line, the best-known one, runs from Blue Ridge to Marietta. The Soque River Fault ...

Reid Merrill says a 20-km fault line under the Georgia Strait could one day trigger ... are occurring on faults that we have been unable to map simply because they're so deep," Bird said.

the group discovered the fault line after finding evidence of an earthquake on the Saanich Peninsula thousands of years ago. Earth scientists have long suspected that parts of the Georgia Basin in ...