For more than a month, the Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes, rattling windows and ...

An earthquake caused by a fault that offsets features on the Earth's surface may have an epicenter that does not lie on the trace of that fault on the surface. This occurs if the fault plane is not ...

Everyone knows earthquakes like the recent magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Morocco can cause significant damage to infrastructure, homes and the environment. But the immediate, often visible devastation ...

Belief in “earthquake weather" is common, especially in California, but scientists are clear that there is no such thing.

The quake struck at 10:44 a.m.Thursday. The shaking reached as far as the San Francisco Bay Area, nearly 270 miles away. People there said they felt both the initial quake and several waves of ...

The earthquake in Turkey that killed more than 3,100 people and set off a series of aftershocks ruptured on a shallow fault line just over 11 miles beneath the Earth’s surface, making it one of the ...

People living in California will get more timely and accurate alerts about mega earthquakes with a new upgrade to the state's early warning system. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and EarthScope ...

Unlike other earthquake-prone places around the planet, California is overdue for a major quake, according to a recent study. But that doesn’t mean a catastrophic event like the 1906 San Francisco ...