Look out, South Carolina, Illinois, and Missouri. Although California is well known for earthquakes, new federal government maps extend the high-risk zones for temblors across much more of the ...

If You Think You're Safe From Earthquakes, You May Be Wrong It’s no surprise that Californians are in danger, but scientists have also flagged residents of Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas ...

At one extreme, we can calculate the odds that big earthquakes will strike broad geographic areas over years or decades – that’s called forecasting.

Read a National Geographic magazine article about Hayward Fault and get information, facts, and more about earthquake science.

For centuries people have tried to predict earthquakes—with no success. Magnetic signals from rocks deep inside the earth are the latest prospect.

What Earthquake Maps Should Really Look Like How much more powerful is a magnitude 7 earthquake than a magnitude 3? Most maps give the wrong impression.

How do gold nuggets form? Earthquakes may be the key Scientists have finally solved a long-standing mystery about the geologic process behind these large pieces of gold found in quartz rock.

Haiti Earthquake Pictures: Aerial Views of the Damage Even--or perhaps especially--from a distance, the scale of destruction and despair after the Haiti earthquake is graphically clear.

In the past two years, there have been three other cases in the United States and one in England (see map) where regulators or scientists traced links between seismic activity and fracking, or the ...

Photograph by Massimo Percossi, EPA Earthquakes in Italy, Myanmar Show Power of World’s Fault Lines The pair of major quakes struck regions known for geological volatility.

What causes earthquakes? Thousands of temblors occur every day. Here’s what you need to know about where they usually take place and how they're measured.

A rare series of earthquakes in northern Texas has residents asking if oil and gas activities are responsible for the shaking, which has left people rattled but did not cause significant damage or ...