For years, textbooks taught that shallow faults—cracks in the Earth’s upper crust—were too stable to cause earthquakes. Once ...

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and ...

First quakes are the most dangerous: Once a healed fault ruptures for the first time, it cannot generate another major ...

Two of the biggest fault lines in the world are synched together in a way that could lead to disastrous consequences, ...

In earthquake country, Marin sits at ground zero. With a myriad of faults, the entire Bay Area is susceptible to the shaking of the earth, but Marin is faced with the San Andreas to the west, the ...

A future mega-earthquake in the Pacific Northwest could lead to the “Big One” along the San Andreas fault in California—or ...

After finding more than 300 surface faults in Harris County, a geologist now has information that could be vitally useful to the region's builders and city planners. This information -- the most ...

YACHATS, Ore. — A 5.4 magnitude earthquake was among two that struck early Wednesday morning off Oregon's coast. According to ...

As much as we would all like to just accept that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson could indeed fight the San Andreas fault and defeat an earthquake with just his raised eyebrow and amazing biceps, it's ...

Around 1,000 people registered online that they felt the earthquake, according to the Maryland Geological Survey.