A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

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

Invisible earthquakes are revealing a hidden tectonic puzzle beneath California’s most dangerous fault zone.

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

Oprah stepped down from the Weight Watchers board in February 2024 and donated all her shares to the National Museum of ...

At least 40 earthquakes have hit a California town in the last day. The epicenter is located in a region of the US where the ...

The Konya Basin, situated in Central Anatolia, Turkey, is exhibiting signs of rapid ground subsidence, despite being part of ...

An international team's seafloor study revealed one reason why the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami were so devastating. The ...

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

New research from USC shows that variations in underground temperature and sediment thickness segment the Main Marmara Fault in ways that control where earthquakes start, how far they spread and where ...

Dozens of earthquakes have been detected in a region just north of the Bay Area, sparking fears that a major earthquake ...

The year opened without much noise, but something significant still happened over the California coast. A rocket lifted off ...