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

Five states sit directly above a fault system that geologists say could someday repeat one of the most violent earthquake ...

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 ...

Buildings have been be smashed, walls have caved in, boats are sitting in the middle of streets. Debris blocks roads and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Los Angeles was rattled Thursday when a 3.1 magnitude earthquake struck near the city of Compton and along the threatening ...

Tidal stresses are comparable to a slight push from a hand, but with the right timing, they can be enough to get a fault moving. Reading time 2 minutes The British Geological Survey says scientists ...

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 collapse of public housing in Venezuela's La Guaira state after two June earthquakes is linked to decisions made in 2010.

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake recently struck off Alaska's Aleutian Islands. This event is part of a string of recent seismic activity along the Pacific Ring of Fire, including several smaller quakes in ...

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 ...