Minutes after a magnitude 4.5 earthquake hit Iran on October 5, 2024, rumors swirled that it wasn’t natural—claims that ...

Tell them there are different kinds of faults (strike-slip, normal, and reverse faults). If you have pictures of faults and fault ruptures, now is a good time to share them with your students.

"In this case, the source was what we call a reverse fault—a motion associated with the Earth's crust being crushed as the Arabian and Eurasian plates collide. Nuclear tests have very different ...