There is a difference between faults and fault lines. The USGS explains a fault is a three-dimensional surface within the ...

California is having quite a month. The West Coast state has been dealing with the tragic Los Angeles wildfires for the past ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

The 'Big One' would measure an 8.0 magnitude or above, causing roughly 1,800 deaths, 50,000 injuries and $200 billion in ...

January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia subduction zone. Centuries later, the ...

There’s been a whole lot of shaking going on as a trio of earthquakes struck Monday in San Bernardino and Riverside counties.

Experts say that while it has been quiet after Monday's quake, the risk of one or more aftershocks is not out of the question ...

While earthquakes have caused disasters since early California, destruction from wildfires is a modern phenomenon ...

New England's earthquakes are attributed to ancient fault lines and stresses within the North American plate. Unlike California, where quakes are caused by active plate boundaries, New England's ...

according to the Great California Shakeout. Experts are 'fairly confident that there could be a pretty large earthquake at some point in the next 30 years,' Angie Lux, project scientist for ...