In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

Bodega Head peninsula stands as the area’s geological masterpiece—a granite headland jutting dramatically into the Pacific, ...

California's San Andreas Fault is capable of triggering a massive earthquake. Here's what to know about this famous location ...

The 7.5-magnitude earthquake appears to be the result of what's known as a strike-slip fault, which takes place as two blocks of crust grind against one another, largely in a horizontal direction.

Discover California's rich history, from Native American tribes and Spanish missions to the Gold Rush and its admission as a ...

MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) — A magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck Parkfield in Monterey County Wednesday afternoon. The quake hit at 3:56 p.m. and was centered about 2.9 miles northwest of Parkfield ...

Today's United States — its possibility, its strength, its divisiveness, its polarization and fragmentation — is encapsulated in a single week in June 2025, its triumphs and frictions on vivid ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Many of California's faults, including the southern portion of the San Andreas, are overdue, Mouslopoulou said. She and her colleagues wanted to compare this overdue pattern to the patterns in ...

The Junggar Basin is one of the most significant petroliferous basins in China; its fault structure, rapid change in burial depth, and strong formation heterogeneity (6,7) present unique geological ...

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 ...