New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing earthquake management ...

Earthquake faults deep in the Earth can glue themselves back together following a seismic event, according to a new study led ...

An earthquake struck California ’s Central Coast on Tuesday, sending shockwaves hundreds of miles across the region. The US ...

Climate change does its damage in a lot of ways—birthing hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires. Now add to ...

When will "The Big One" hit the U.S. West Coast? Nobody knows, but should it happen, science can give us a good idea of its ...

The Oct. 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake was America's first widely-shared natural disaster. The calamity was captured live on television, as Game 3 of the World Series was about to start. The TV ...

There isn’t zero probability of earthquakes in the Rochester area, but it is much lower than in regions of the state with known faults, like southeastern New York and other coastal regions. There are ...

A 6.3-magnitude quake near Mazar-e Sharif exposed Afghanistans seismic threat. Experts explained how the collision of the ...

Earthquakes are some of nature’s most destructive forces, but what if we could better predict where they might strike? A new ...

Rime ice buildup on Mount Rainier's only analog seismic station has led to false reports of increased tremor activity, the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network said.

The last significant quake swarm in the San Ramon area, in 2015, lasted 36 days and produced 654 tiny earthquakes, the ...

The moon may be the cause of some things that happen on Earth, but earthquakes aren't one of them, a new study suggests. There's been an ongoing debate as to whether or not more earthquakes occur when ...