"Wherever you are, drop down to your hands and knees and hold onto something sturdy," officials say. "If you're using a ...

The rocks themselves are telling us this is an important process,” Stanford geophysicist Eric Dunham said in a 2020 interview ...

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

More than a dozen earthquakes have rattled the area in less than 48 hours, including some as strong as magnitude 3.2.

In short, the United States and the entire world are safer from earthquakes thanks to 20 years of testing life-sized buildings and other large structures at UC San Diego’s large, outdoor earthquake ...

A recent study from Utah State University geoscientists explores the characteristics of rocks from a fault zone in Utah.

In the U.S., this preparation hinges in large part on the expertise of scientists and engineers in federal agencies who develop earthquake hazard models and contribute to the creation of building ...

New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake ...

California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.

A magnitude 3.2 earthquake hit a few miles south of Malibu on Wednesday, sending a gentle jolt through the beachside city and ...

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.