Tracy Turner, owner of the Wynola Junction, looks over pictures that fell from shelves when an earthquake hit Monday in Julian. (Denis Poroy / Associated Press) Below California's famed beaches, ...

For more than a month, the Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes, rattling windows and raising fears across California.

Drop. Cover. Hold on. That’s the three-part jingle every Californian learns to stay safe in earthquake country. Scientists forecast a more than 99% chance that earthquakes of 6.7 magnitude or larger ...

What could the next mega-earthquake on California's notorious San Andreas fault look like? Would it be a repeat of 1857, when an earthquake estimated at magnitude 7.7 to 7.9 ruptured the fault from ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Thursday’s 3.1 magnitude earthquake was the latest of five notable aftershocks to hit Berkeley since a 4.3 magnitude earthquake rattled the college town on Sept. 22. A day later ...

This gradual accumulation and release of stress and strain is now referred to as the "elastic rebound theory" of earthquakes. Most earthquakes are the result of the sudden elastic rebound of ...

Below California’s famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state’s collective consciousness.