Many of the state’s largest earthquakes have struck near the junction, where the Pacific, North American and Gorda plates ...

IMPERIAL COUNTY, CA - Thursday morning, a 4.1 magnitude quake was detected close to Holtville, according to the U.S.

Earth scientist Andrea Donnellan studies the surface of the Earth from the sky to better understand earthquakes, including ...

— James Webb, Mineral Point, Wis. A Chuck DeMets, professor of geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Most earthquakes occur when a geological fault, a fracture within the Earth’s crust, ...

A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major ...

KERN COUNTY, CA - A 2.0 magnitude quake was recorded near Johannesburg Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological ...

Findings based on mini “lab quakes” in a controlled setting could help researchers assess the likelihood of future quakes in ...

Instead, the most prolific period of glacial earthquakes at Thwaites, between 2018 and 2020, coincides with a period of accelerated flow of the glacier’s ice tongue towards the sea. The ice-tongue ...

A deep earthquake in Chile surprised scientists by using heat to grow stronger far underground and cause serious surface ...