Scientists have a new method for studying faults that could improve earthquake forecasts, shedding light on where quakes ...

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have described a new method for studying faults that could improve ...

Central Coast residents felt a shake on Saturday evening as an earthquake occurred along the San Andreas Fault. It happened ...

Earthquakes are common on the West Coast, with multiple plate boundaries like the San Andreas fault making geologic activity more likely. They are rarer on the East Coast, but they do happen.

Of arguably greater importance, by shrinking the distance between humans and machines railroads enabled monumental surges in ...

It is where three tectonic plates meet and the Northwest’s Cascadia subduction zone and California’s San Andreas Fault system meet ... according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The power of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Northern California Thursday morning. It led to a tsunami warning from San Francisco to Oregon, but it was canceled shortly after.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates losses in ... “At the same time, we got to say that the San Andreas Fault down here, near us off the Salton Sea, that is something that would significantly ...

A paper in the journal Geology describes the method ... scientists have shown that a large earthquake originating on the San Andreas fault near the Salton Sea that propagates to the north will ...