Experts urge the government to enforce building codes as poorly-constructed buildings can lead to more fatalities, economic ...

Experts say the earthquake in Myanmar last month was likely the strongest to hit the country in decades. Automatic ...

"Mitchell said, "Most earthquakes, but not all, happen at the boundaries of tectonic plates. The stresses at those plates are ...

The Julian earthquake is worth closer examination not for its size or damage (there was very little), but for a demonstration ...

There is, of course, the mighty San Andreas, whose massive slip caused the ... and is eventually unleashed in the form of ...

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and ...

Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones said this earthquake is likely associated with the Elsinore Fault, which is a branch of the larger San Andreas Fault system. Jones said the depth of the quake was about ...

Southern California is seismically active due to its location on tectonic plate boundaries ... California's most infamous quake remains the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which triggered ...

one of the world’s largest and most active fault zones. The San Andreas runs more than 800 miles long and divides the state into two tectonic plates, the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could change the way we conceptualize oceanic transform faults. The Gofar fault operates much like the San Andreas ...

The Gofar fault operates much like the San Andreas, in that two tectonic ... They represent the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent boundaries, like ...

The earthquake risk at Scott Dam may be a key factor in PG&E’s decision to abandon the Potter Valley Project.