The quakes range in size from a 2.5 magnitude up to a 4.1 magnitude, the data shows. At least two of the quakes were centered ...

When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Myanmar on March 28, 2025, it wasn’t just another powerful tremor—it was a geological curveball. The quake ripped open more than 500 kilometers (317 miles) of the ...

Beneath California’s glittering cities lies a monster that never sleeps — the San Andreas Fault, a massive crack between two tectonic plates grinding past each other. Scientists warn that the southern ...

They are two of the West Coast’s most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: The San Andreas fault in California and the Cascadia subduction zone offshore of California’s North Coast, Oregon, ...

An aerial view of the La Cañada Flintridge foothills shows dust and dirt thrown into the air following a magnitude 5.9 earthquake from Oct. 1, 1987. (George Rose / Getty Images) Monday's magnitude 4.4 ...

The latest version of the U.S. Geological Survey’s earthquake hazard model, issued last week, shows “a chance for greater shaking” from earthquakes in California than previous iterations, the agency ...

In earthquake country, the meandering paths of quake faults easily get seared into memory in the same way as a California freeway map. An earthquake fault is a fracture in the ground between two ...

Recent earthquakes that have shaken California may be a result of a Southern California fault line considered even more dangerous than the San Andreas fault. Los Angeles was rattled by a 4.4 magnitude ...

The San Andreas and Hayward faults get all the attention in the San Francisco Bay Area, but on Tuesday, the obscure Calaveras Fault made itself known. A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck on the fault ...