A new study by Northwestern University researchers and coworkers explains a puzzling problem with maps of future earthquake shaking used to design earthquake-resistant buildings. Although ...

The impact of an earthquake on people and property depends not only on the earthquake's characteristics like magnitude and ...

Oklahoma tops the list of the states most vulnerable to human-caused quakes. Some areas are now as earthquake-prone as California. The U.S. Geological Survey this week released a new earthquake hazard ...

Look out, South Carolina, Illinois, and Missouri. Although California is well known for earthquakes, new federal government maps extend the high-risk zones for temblors across much more of the country ...

The U.S. Geological Survey released a new seismic hazard map which puts areas of the East Bay and San Jose at a higher risk for damage, CBS station KPIX reports. Tall buildings in areas of the East ...

One of the largest earthquakes in history occurred in the New Madrid Seismic Zone on Feb. 7, 1812. The earthquake exceeded the magnitude of California's Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Scientists ...

A magnitude 2.7 earthquake rattled parts of central Oklahoma late Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Pegging the steep slopes of Montara Mountain and the Santa Cruz Mountains as areas where earthquake-induced landslides could occur, new Seismic Hazard Zone maps released by the California Department ...

Two earthquakes struck off the Oregon coast on Tuesday, rattling communities along the Pacific Northwest shoreline.

A research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking intensities. In analyzing the possible ...