An earthquake typically sets off ruptures that ripple out from its underground origins. But on rare occasions, seismologists ...

Scientists find seismic scars in Brzegi, Poland and warn that the actual risk from an unknown fault line is much greater than ...

Like the rest of the Northeast, Maine has no active faults, making it an area of relatively low seismic activity. But it ...

Shrinking lakes in Tibet likely woke up long-dormant tectonic faults, a new study finds. The findings strengthen the link ...

The West Coast of North America is a geologically tumultuous zone where tectonic plates collide, subducting under and scraping past one another. Over the eons, this activity has regularly caused major ...

S. population is "somewhat likely" to experience a damaging earthquake in the coming decades, according to recently published seismic hazard models. Let's be real, most Americans think earthquakes ...

Some large earthquakes may flip direction and “boomerang” back, striking the same area twice and reshaping damage patterns.

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

In a world-first use of medical imaging technology, scientists have revealed the earthquake-generating potential of faults in ...

A 3.5 magnitude earthquake shook parts of Utah Thursday, the second felt in two weeks. The tremors come as experts remap the state to better understand local fault lines.

Seventy-five tremors hit San Ramon, a small California city on 2. Here's what caused the swarm and why it isn't entirely ...