Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

An unusual spike in earthquake activity in central Idaho over the last several weeks is being studied by scientists to gain ...

According to a recent studypublished in JGR Solid Earth, nearly half of California’s fault lines—including the infamous San ...

San Diego, Los Angeles and Big Sur are located on the Pacific Plate while San Francisco, Sacramento and the Sierra Nevada ... to the Southern California Earthquake Data Center, this fault zone ...

According to the USGS intensity map, the shaking reported in California was of weak to light intensity. The Nevada earthquake comes ... warning that stretched from southern Oregon to San Francisco.

A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Nevada on Monday ... prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that ...

The tremors were felt in Oregon and Nevada ... along the fault. 2. Magnitude 7.5 San Bernardino, Calif: The massive 1812 earthquake caused devastating damage to the Missions in Southern California ...

And it was a reminder that even relatively itty-bitty faults can rattle ... A strong earthquake rattled a large swath of Southern California and parts of Nevada on Thursday morning, making hanging ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Southern ... Nevada are on the North American Plate. It was along this fault zone where the state’s most powerful recorded quake and perhaps the most significant ...