Quartz, which can generate electricity, attracts large chunks of gold when stressed and squeezed by seismic shaking, ...

Interestingly enough, earthquakes have the ability to cause quartz to form large gold nuggets, a fact that has been ...

The pressure created by earthquakes could trigger quartz veins to generate enough electricity to form large nuggets of gold, ...

Texans were rocked by a "notable" 5.1 magnitude earthquake—one of the strongest in the state's history—on Monday evening, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The quake struck in Martin ...

The strain imparted by an earthquake can generate voltages in quartz veins that stimulate the mineralization of gold.

It's been an unusually active year for earthquakes in Los Angeles, as Thursday morning's magnitude 4.7 Malibu temblor shows.

Seismic activity (i.e. earthquakes) may finally help solve the mystery behind the existence of large gold nuggets found beneath the Earth’s surface, a new study published in Nature Geosciences ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — In the wake of a magnitude 5.1 earthquake rattling near Midland Monday evening, Texas geology experts are giving further insight into some of the causes behind these quakes.

The 4.7 magnitude quake was centered 4 miles north of Malibu. By The Associated Press A 4.7 magnitude earthquake rattled the Los Angeles area Thursday morning, unleashing boulders onto a Malibu ...

Gold nuggets may be the product of earthquakes repeatedly shaking the ... That doesn’t mean this is how nuggets form naturally, but it now seems the most likely explanation.

This sensor network that comprises several hundred stations will eventually form the backbone of an integrated earthquake early warning system in Alaska, which will rapidly detect impending ...

That’s because individual faults can link up with others in the same seismic event to form an even larger magnitude earthquake. The epicenter of Thursday’s earthquake was closest to the Malibu ...