The series of earthquakes is the first major swarm of seismic events since 2009. Is it safe if you're planning on visiting?

While rare, Redding does get earthquakes strong enough for us to feel. Here's why Shasta and Siskiyou counties and the north ...

St. George • Seismologists and public safety officials don’t want anyone to get rattled in the aftermath of the 4.5 magnitude earthquake that struck southern Utah Sunday, but they do want ...

Large earthquakes could be forecast by early warning signs detectable months or even a year beforehand, seismologists have reported in a study. Scientists discovered that unique seismic signals ...

There are tantalizing hints some faults issue warning signals in the days and months before a big earthquake, according to new research. A study of squeaky glass beads squeezed between powerful ...

Despite its vintage appearance, the humanities building has modern safety capabilities. A $1.4 million strengthening project added new exterior shear walls designed to counteract earthquake loads.

That's a sign that the fault system still poses a hazard. Unlike the notoriously active San Andreas Fault in California, where two enormous continental plates border and occasionally grind together, ...

According to the Earthquake Country Alliance, if you’re on the ground floor of a building constructed with little input from architects or engineers, such as mud-brick structures, this is the ...

At 8:29 a.m. on Nov. 30, part of the rock slab underneath the Pacific Ocean 7 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska, shifted, causing a magnitude 7 earthquake.As Anchorage was preparing for the day ...

NJ earthquake caused minor, but widespread damage. The findings of the study call into question some assumptions about the region's earthquake hazard, said Kim, who co-authored the study.