A 1954 earthquake ... seismic zone is important, because the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which stretches from northern California to Vancouver Island in Canada, is not known to give off many small or ...

A little-known area in the heart of the US is set for a massive disaster that could kill thousands and cripple the nation's ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Saturday’s magnitude 4.7 quake, which occurred nearly 60 miles outside of Elko, Nevada, was the strongest event out of more than a dozen earthquakes over the ...