SPOKANE, Wash. — Earthquakes are not uncommon in Washington, but many people think of them as a westside thing. The most concerning fault line, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, runs along the west ...

The Elsinore fault is a separate fault line but ... 7.3 Landers earthquake in 1992 and the magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake in 1994 - 'depressed' the local tectonic stress in South California ...

When people think of natural disasters in the Mid-South ... disaster— earthquakes, and the next big one could come sooner than you think. We live on the New Madrid Fault line, which is the ...

Now those fault lines form weak zones where stress in the earth can build and eventually break into earthquakes. Why these fault lines are seismically active, while neighboring ones aren’t, is less ...

A 5.1 magnitude earthquake centered near San Jose on Tuesday occurred along the Calaveras Fault, not the most active fault in the Bay Area. It was the strongest quake along that fault line since a ...

Earthquakes remain an afterthought ... However, buried under several states to the south-southwest of Michigan lies the New Madrid fault line, extending 120 miles from southeast Missouri ...

In Northern California, there is a 76% chance that an earthquake ... more active fault lines, the Hayward Fault is the closest to Sacramento, running along the East Bay in a north-south direction ...

Anyone who felt tremors and shaking or heard rumbling from Thursday’s earthquake can report it to the USGS. The South Carolina Emergency Management Division map of fault lines in the Palmetto ...

“In New York City, it was felt as an intensity 4, so you were shaking so everyone will feel the earthquake.” Seismic activity along the fault line, which runs north to south through the ...