Several major metropolitan areas are in considerable danger of disastrous “earthquake shaking” from upcoming geological ...

Most Americans picture earthquakes as a coastal problem, the province of California and the Pacific Northwest, but one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stanford researchers mapped rare mantle earthquakes worldwide, revealing clusters near the Himalayas and the Bering Strait.

UC Riverside scientists have developed a way to identify where Earth’s biggest earthquakes are most likely to occur.

For most of recorded history, certain corners of the world seemed comfortably exempt from the kind of seismic violence that flattens cities and reshapes coastlines. People built homes, raised families ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Cascadia Subduction Zone is “unusually quiet,” for a megathrust fault, making it more difficult for scientists to understand its behavior and structure. With help from ...

Large earthquakes have been common along the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone, except at the Shumagin Gap. Yinchu Li Not all earthquake faults behave the same. Some stick and snap, causing earthquakes.