Colorado has the potential for much larger earthquakes than a 2.9 quake in Dacono on June 13. Here's what to know and when the last earthquake was.

The new seismic hazard model found nearly 500 new faults nationwide. Six of the newly found faults were discovered in Colorado. "These maps are made so that we can understand where future ...

A small earthquake shook Dacono recently, giving Denver residents a brief reminder of Colorado's hidden seismic activity.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) registered a 2.9 magnitude earthquake near Dacono, Colorado Friday morning. Denver7 got ...

Some 230 million people in the United States face the potential of damaging earthquakes in 100 years, according to the latest U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model, or NSHM. That’s about 40 million ...

The potential for catastrophic earthquakes to rock nearly every corner of the United States is becoming a growing threat, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. By analyzing the newest seismic ...

One of the largest earthquakes to hit Colorado in decades rattled homes ... “In accordance with COGCC’s risk-based seismic hazard mitigation approach as it pertains to injection wells, COGGC ...

A research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking intensities. In analyzing the ...

Therefore, tough choices are required and decisions about how to allocate resources are often based on earthquake hazard maps to predict how much shaking to expect over the many years buildings ...

“Hazard maps for California as well as Japan, Italy, Nepal and France all seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking intensities. The hazard maps were made by groups in ...