The Cascadia subduction zone could pose a major threat to the West Coast if a high magnitude earthquake were to occur, ...

A long-feared monster earthquake off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington could cause some areas to sink by more ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm on a 'sleeping giant' off the coast of California, warning it could sink land in several ...

The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), found that a major earthquake ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, a major fault that runs offshore from Northern California to British Columbia, is best known ...

Scientists say the size of earthquake faults may have been previously underestimated, extending potentially dangerous ...

The stresses at those plates are high, or pulling apart, or sliding next to each other, like the San Andreas fault is a plate ...

Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie Rowe of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno and Alex Hatem of the U.S. Geological Survey sought ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

As amateur quake predictors gain online clout, govt officials scramble to debunk their wild theories, say none of them are ...

A massive 7.7 earthquake and powerful aftershock struck near Mandalay, Burma, shaking buildings and damaging infrastructure ...