Scientists are warning that a 1,000-foot-tall “mega tsunami” could potentially wipe a large chunk of America off the map – if ...

Scientists warn if a 1,000-ft ‘mega-tsunami’s spurs from an active fault line it could wipe part of America off the map - Alaska, Hawaii and areas along the mainland West Coast would be at risk if an ...

While the New Madrid Seismic Zone is around 500 miles from Iowa's most populous city of Des Moines, a major earthquake there ...

The numbers shift over time. There were 301 Tennessee earthquakes in 2018 but just 11 in 1994. The ground shakes when there is a sudden slip on a fault. The sudden slip releases energy in waves ...

At 4.1 magnitude near Greenback, the May 10 quake was large for our area. Experts look back on the last earthquakes to predict the future.

California has experienced three earthquakes in the last 24 hours in an area being closely monitored for a major quake. The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected the seismic activity along the San ...

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

Most earthquakes happen along fault lines, which are the boundaries between tectonic plates. Here in California, we have the San Andreas Fault. It forms the boundary between the Pacific and North ...

The team's research revealed significant clues about the Wasatch Fault's earthquake risk. Researchers explain why properties of fault rocks and geologic events that occurred more than a billion ...

Roman empires, King Charlemagne, and successive modern Italian governments have all attempted to get beyond the planning phase, but cost, time, and the challenges of building in an earthquake ...

Most earthquakes form along underground fault lines, which are fractures or boundaries between two different types of rock. MUST SEE: Contrary to popular belief, Eastern Canada is more quake-prone ...