Americans often stereotype the country’s East and West coasts, portraying the East Coast as uptight and stressed and the West Coast as laid back and maybe a little flaky. That’s according to ...

An earthquake on the East Coast does not happen often, unlike on the West Coast where California annually "gets two or three earthquakes large enough to cause moderate damage to structures ...

Of those, 186,000 were waiting off the West Coast, while 273,000 were waiting off the US East Coast. Ports on the West Coast — which are key exchange points between US and Asian markets — are ...