You are going about your day. All is calm and quiet until suddenly, the ground beneath your feet begins to shake, and items ...

As PG&E’s aging Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is up for a 20-year federal license renewal, one scientist cites new GPS data to suggest there’s a looming seismic threat from an active thrust fault ...

Findings from a recently published paper led by Smithsonian senior scientist emeritus Thomas R. Watters reveal evidence that the south polar region of Earth’s moon has experienced the effects of the ...

The earthquake generated shaking in Sarmi that reached a Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) scale of V. At this intensity, the ...

Recent earthquakes that have shaken California may be a result of a Southern California fault line considered even more dangerous than the San Andreas fault. Los Angeles was rattled by a 4.4 magnitude ...

In earthquake country, the meandering paths of quake faults easily get seared into memory in the same way as a California freeway map. An earthquake fault is a fracture in the ground between two ...

Late Monday night, a modest earthquake rattled upstate New York and northern Vermont, a reminder that even timeworn faults ...

A magnitude 2.9 earthquake struck underneath the Los Angeles neighborhood of El Sereno on Monday morning, causing weak shaking throughout the Eastside and the San Gabriel Valley. The earthquake, which ...