The architect behind Hearst’s San Simeon and many other buildings in California defied the 20th-century image of the tortured ...

The Concord Fault, which runs through Bay Area neighborhoods in Concord and Walnut Creek is in a different location than previously understood. It could produce a major earthquake in the Bay Area.

A major California fault once thought to be stable is quietly shifting beneath neighborhoods, schools, and it could lead to a ...

The fault has moved the curbs as much as a handspan, around 18 centimeters, since the time they were installed, up to 60 ...

A preliminary magnitude 3.6 earthquake was recorded near Borrego Springs in San Diego County, according to USGS.

A resident has described fleeing a 'twister' and pulling a man trapped in one caravan while another was smashed to pieces.

This year’s 100th anniversary of the Santa Barbara earthquake has brought to my mind the two devastating quakes that struck ...

A doomsday tsunami is likely to strike the US in the near future, but scientists say it's better if it hits sooner rather ...

Wikimedia Commons/Mare Island Navy Yard The 1944 Port Chicago Explosion The Navy built Port Chicago Naval Magazine in 1942 to ...

An earthquake with a preliminary 6.2 magnitude has struck off the Pacific coast of Panama. No injuries or damage were immediately reported. The U.S. Geological Survey said that the quake ...

Emergency responders from across the Bay Area convened in Redwood City on Wednesday to try to improve natural disaster alerts ...

The writer likens the recent actions by ICE to those of the Nazis in 1938. But the target of the wrath of the SS in the Germany of 1938 was extermination, not deportation. Any protesters would have ...