Researchers say stress on Southern California’s San Andreas and San Jacinto faults has reached some of the highest levels seen in a 1,000-year simulation. Because both faults are highly stressed at ...

The collapse of public housing buildings in the Venezuelan state of La Guaira following two catastrophic earthquakes in June ...

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake tore through the South Carolina Lowcountry on September 1, 1886, killing dozens of people and ...

San Diego City College is taking a look at whether it is safe to tear down and replace Saville Theater after engineers discovered subsurface strands of an earthquake fault near the 57-year-old ...

A 3.1 magnitude earthquake struck near Compton, California, along the Newport-Inglewood Fault. This event followed a swarm of over 90 smaller quakes in the same Southern California region. The Newport ...

Scientists recorded 1,399 local quakes since North Korea began its underground nuclear tests—a spike unlike anything the region has seen since seismic activity was first catalogued there. Reading time ...

Hundreds of small earthquakes were recently recorded across California. A burst of small earthquakes does not necessarily mean a major quake is imminent. Scientists can calculate earthquake ...

The eastern coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula experienced a magnitude 8.8 megathrust earthquake in late July 2025. While the earthquake created only moderate damage and a minimal tsunami, a new ...

The risk of a major earthquake along a U.S. fault line has increased, according to a new study. KABC reports the U.S. Geological Survey released new data showing an earthquake with a 6.7-or-greater ...