A swarm of earthquakes has struck Southern California near a major fault line that could unleash the infamous 'Big One' and ...

This year’s 100th anniversary of the Santa Barbara earthquake has brought to my mind the two devastating quakes that struck ...

The fault has moved the curbs as much as a handspan, around 18 centimeters, since the time they were installed, up to 60 ...

If the ocean floor had a nervous system, it might look something like this: thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

A preliminary 3.7 magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday morning off the coast of Northern California, according to the United ...

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created by one tectonic plate pushing its way under another. Every 400-600 years, ...

Seven people were "unaccounted for" in Yolo County's town of Esparto after several explosions at a fireworks warehouse ...

The number and size of Texas quakes increased dramatically around 2010 when well injection became the common disposal method.

Sudden flames ignited a warehouse storing fireworks in rural Northern California, causing an explosion with an impromptu pyrotechnic display ahead of the Fourth of July. The incident happened on ...