Imagine a scenario where the Pacific Northwest gets pummeled by a magnitude nine earthquake, only to have California's most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tracy Turner, owner of the Wynola Junction, looks over pictures that fell from shelves when an earthquake hit Monday in Julian.

Invisible earthquakes are revealing a hidden tectonic puzzle beneath California’s most dangerous fault zone.

Along the remote coast where the San Andreas Fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, earthquakes too small for humans to ...

Scientists discover ultra-weak faults near the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Haiti that continued to slip for weeks.

CITYWIDE — It's a seismic year for Santa Monica. In the 20th year since the destructive Northridge Earthquake, city officials announced they would assess buildings that might need seismic upgrades and ...

A pair of moderate earthquakes that shook Northern California on Thursday and Friday happened near a region known as the Almanor Fault Zone, marking the two strongest temblors in almost a decade for a ...

The geometric structure of rocks where earthquakes occur could play a key role in determining their location and strength, researchers have found. A study, carried out by geologists at Brown ...

A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of earthquakes. Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental ...