Impact: The 1933 earthquake was Southern California’s deadliest in the modern record, leaving nearly 120 dead and causing $40 ...

Tsunami earthquakes are characterized by the generation of disproportionately large tsunamis relative to the observed ground ...

Megathrust faults can generate some of Earth’s largest quakes. One example is the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, which rocked Japan and fomented a tsunami that devastated coastal areas, as shown.

Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault surfaces to the possibility of earthquake occurrences. Published in the ...

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — A 2.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded early Tuesday morning near Mount Vernon. The shakes were recorded around 1:59 a.m. Tuesday about 3 kilometers west of Mount Vernon ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Central Mountains had numerous earthquakes occur Friday, all in connection to the ongoing earthquake swarm in the area. Several of Friday’s quakes registered above ...

An earthquake could be in a matter of minutes, the next hour, tomorrow, or in a week from now, we can't predict that precisely at this time. We don't know," Goulet said.

California is an earthquake oddball in that the state's faults are more likely to be "overdue" compared with faults elsewhere in the world, new research finds. The study could help geoscientists make ...

Taiwan lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean from Chile to New Zealand where most of the world’s earthquakes occur. Taiwan’s worst modern quake, ...

Earthquakes happen along several fault lines in the Bay Area. The most infamous of these, the San Andreas fault line, runs through the San Francisco peninsula and was responsible for an estimated ...

A minor, 3.2-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 12:27 p.m. Pacific time about 15 miles ...