ISTANBUL (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook Istanbul and other areas Wednesday, prompting widespread panic and scores of injuries in the Turkish city of 16 million people, ...

Turkey’s emergency management agency says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 has shaken Istanbul ...

A major earthquake in Southern ... spread from the Elsinore fault to the connecting Whittier fault, Los Angeles would see a ...

Earthquakes also pose minimal risk to the system as Boring points out similar subway systems in California and Mexico City were some of the safest places to be during seismic events with tunnels ...

Fault zones are often wide, branching networks rather than narrow lines, requiring a shift to 3D models for better earthquake ...

Below California’s famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state’s collective ...

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

Based on evidence collected in the aftermath of the recent Myanmar earthquake, countries and large metropolitan areas, such as Bangkok and Hanoi, may not be located on fault lines, yet they are ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...