A minor, 3.2-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological ...

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.6 rattled near Riverside County on Wednesday ...

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 ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports a 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck southwest of Atascadero on Monday afternoon. The ...

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook the Mediterranean coastal town of Marmaris on Tuesday, Turkey’s disaster management agency said. At least seven people were injured while ...

The 1980 eruption cycle made Mount St. Helens one of the most famous volcanoes in the Cascades. But it is far from the only ...

An earthquake has struck California as experts warn that the long-feared “Big One” could be approaching. The US Geological ...

A magnitude 2.4 earthquake was recorded near Long Beach, California, on Sunday night, June 1, according to the US Geological ...

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

Tremors—slow, silent fault movements deep underground—may reveal how stress builds up on faults that produce major ... California, through Oregon and Washington, to British Columbia. The zone produces ...

But scientists believe they can serve as useful analogs of how major earthquakes begin and behave. Earth and planetary sciences professor Emily Brodsky and Gaspard Farge, a postdoctoral researcher.

Most earthquakes happen along fault lines, which are the ... and how you define "major"). But that hasn't happened since 1906! In Southern California, it's been even longer. Some researchers ...