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Why Don’t Balancing Boulders Fall During Earthquakes?

smithsonianmag.com

Some boulders defy gravity. Despite balancing on other rocks in the midst of fault lines, they stay precariously perched — thanks in part to those fault lines brushing up against each other, geologists report in the journal Seismological Research Letters.

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