Two of the biggest fault lines in the world are synched together in a way that could lead to disastrous consequences, according to recent scientific analysis. This synchronization raises alarms about ...

California’s earthquake time bomb may be ticking faster than scientists realized. Just a week after a magnitude 3.9 quake rattled Oakland’s Hayward Fault, researchers at San Jose State University have ...

A long rupture on the ground extending through infrastructure damage in Kumamoto Prefecture seems to confirm what seismologists had long feared: a major earthquake stemming from the active Hinagu ...

Cajon Pass may allow an earthquake to occur along two fault lines simultaneously. | Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images California is tense, or at least its fault lines are. The ...