The San Andreas Fault (red lines) and the other plate boundaries (green lines). Color contours indicate the presumed fault slip distribution of the 1700 Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake. Circles ...

The geometric structure of rocks where earthquakes occur could play a key role in determining their location and strength, researchers have found. A study, carried out by geologists at Brown ...

Last Monday, April 14, an earthquake caught many people’s attention in Southern California. It was centered near the town of Julian about 35 miles inland from San Diego and triggered the USGS ...

In the wake of the devastating earthquake that killed an estimated 11,000 people in Turkey and Syria, scientists from around the world will be flocking to the disaster zone to learn more about the ...

For decades, there’s been talk of an earthquake so powerful that California would shake loose and fall into the Pacific Ocean. Some would clarify the claim by saying that after the "Big One," ...

HAYWARD, Calif. (KRON) — Predicting where and when the next “big one” will strike the San Francisco Bay Area is a tough task for seismologist. Five major fault lines cross the Bay Area: San Andreas, ...

Scientists are raising the alarm about a potential seismic catastrophe on the West Coast of North America. Recent studies suggest that a massive earthquake along the Cascadia megathrust fault, which ...

New research led by scientists at San Diego State University (SDSU) in collaboration with UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds that as the Salton Sea in Southern California has ...