A minor, 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

In this area, the Earth's crust is gradually being pulled apart, causing faulting and frequent earthquakes ... fault lines, including the Fairview Peak-Dixie Valley Fault Scarps and the Central ...

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

Earthquakes create ripple effects in Earth's upper atmosphere that can disrupt satellite communications and navigation ...

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"Instead of looking at (data) as lines and columns on a spreadsheet, now we can look at it in 3D on a map, and we can see ... desert sits atop major earthquake faults, and as the tectonic plates ...

A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. Greece's Ministry for Climate Crisis and Civil Protection warned on ...

Minor quakes can disrupt natural tectonic patterns deep underground and change stress landscape, new study finds ...

When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath the Earth's surface, some faults move in near silence. These slow, shuffling slips and their accompanying hum ...

INSTEAD, IT WAS PRESSURE BEING RELEASED UNDERNEATH THE EARTH, NOT FAULT LINES MOVING. NOW, THE EARTHQUAKE IN GREENBACK, TENNESSEE, ON SATURDAY REGISTERED AS A 4.1 THE NEXT DAY IN JESSAMINE COUNTY ...

A new paper explains how the properties of fault rocks and geologic events that took place over a billion years ago could ...