The bold question-askers at What If examine the nearly impossible fault line conditions needed to trigger a magnitude 20 earthquake.

While most people immediately think of the San Andreas Fault when it comes to potential seismic disasters in the United States, there’s another fault line that has recently been gaining more attention ...

A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Alaska on Wednesday, unleashing seismic shockwaves that raced through the Earth's ...

Scientists discover enormous pockets of salty brine beneath the Pacific Ocean, key to understanding periodic underwater ...

In September 2000, J.’s own Alix Wall wrote about her fond memories of her six summers at Camp Swig in the early ’80s, five ...

A new study corrects the recorded depth of an earthquake in Japan, revealing that it was not the deepest in history.

The big one about “The Big One” hit 10 years ago. On July 13, 2015, The New Yorker shook us up with “The Really Big One,” ...

A so-called "doomsday tsunami" is likely to hit the United States in the near future, but scientists now say there is a ...

The thorniest issue is the highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. SONGS officials say that it’s stored safely in sealed ...

Evacuating for a tsunami could take over 2 hours, new study says. Neither are enough for people to escape danger zones in ...

New research led by the University of Victoria (UVic) has illuminated a significant and previously unrecognized source of ...

A fault line that could unleash a major earthquake is not where scientists thought it was. New research found the Concord ...