SPOKANE, Wash. — Earthquakes are not uncommon in Washington, but many people think of them as a westside thing. The most concerning fault line, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, runs along the west ...

The Elsinore fault is a separate fault line but ... 7.3 Landers earthquake in 1992 and the magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake in 1994 - 'depressed' the local tectonic stress in South California ...

When people think of natural disasters in the Mid-South ... disaster— earthquakes, and the next big one could come sooner than you think. We live on the New Madrid Fault line, which is the ...

A strong, 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck in Colombia on Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The ...

A magnitude-5.2 earthquake occurred about 2.5 miles south Julian ... The Elsinore Fault Zone, a major fault line in Southern California and part of the San Andreas Fault system, is in this ...

The Mid-South was hit by seven earthquakes ... In recent days, what’s called a “swarm of earthquakes” rattled an area near the New Madrid Fault Line in Missouri. Seven earthquakes shook ...

A 5.1 magnitude earthquake centered near San Jose on Tuesday occurred along the Calaveras Fault, not the most active fault in the Bay Area. It was the strongest quake along that fault line since a ...

Now those fault lines form weak zones where stress in the earth can build and eventually break into earthquakes. Why these fault lines are seismically active, while neighboring ones aren’t, is less ...

According to the USGS, most of North America ... earthquake in this seismic zone." Most of Illinois’ earthquakes occur in the southern half of the state near the famed New Madrid fault line.

The town of New Madrid, which sits in the southeast corner of Missouri an hour away from Cape Girardeau, is home to fault lines where hundreds of unnoticeable earthquakes happen yearly ...