Scientists discover enormous pockets of salty brine beneath the Pacific Ocean, key to understanding periodic underwater ...

While most people immediately think of the San Andreas Fault when it comes to potential seismic disasters in the United States, there’s another fault line that has recently been gaining more attention ...

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

A dozen earthquakes were detected in a US town that sits on top of a fault line capable of unleashing a powerful and devastating quake.

Drawing from rupture maps, geodetic surveys of creeping monuments, satellite imagery, aftershock locations, low-velocity damage zones, and the presence of specific rock types that form under seismic ...

Magnitude 5.2 earthquake hits San Diego County, felt across Southern California Dylan Carneiro cleans up bottles that were knocked off the shelves at Mountain Springs Liquor in Julian.

Since the beginning of the XXI Century, our society has witnessed a number of catastrophic earthquakes with devastating consequences (e.g., Sumatra 2004, Haiti 2010, Japan 2010, Nepal 2015, Italy 2009 ...

One of the most dangerous earthquake zones in the country is right in the heartland, and can trigger quakes you’ll feel a thousand miles away.

But earthquake faults are still being discovered across the state (the Yerington-area quake occurred near no known faults) and there is still serious potential for earthquakes, especially in ...

Earthquakes At least 20 aftershocks follow M5.8 earthquake in Nevada The earthquake itself was felt as far as Sacramento, San Francisco and Modesto.