A Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is coming for the Pacific Northwest, and when it hits, scientists now believe, it could ...

These are two very different fault systems, but the sediment record suggests that in the past, at least three San Andreas ...

The West Coast of North America is a geologically tumultuous zone where tectonic plates collide, subducting under and ...

Samples from the seafloor reveal evidence of several earthquakes along the West Coast’s two major fault zones happening in ...

It's almost time for the "Great ShakeOut" and there's a new study telling us about the "Big One" ahead of the earthquake ...

In the Bay Area, BART plans to automatically slow down its trains and have them come to a brief stop, as the system is ...

Supershear earthquakes are more common than previously believed, some scientists say — carrying potentially profound risk for ...

Scientists from Oregon State University studying sediment layers in the Pacific Ocean have discovered that two of the most ...

A total of 980,458 participants were registered in San Diego to stop everything for a minute to "drop, cover and hold on" at ...

The one-minute drill was developed to teach people what to do when a large temblor strikes. If you have the MyShake app, your ...

The annual Great California ShakeOut saw over 10 million residents across the state practise earthquake safety drills, ...

Scientists compared sediment deposits created by underwater landslides from earthquakes within the Cascadia Subduction Zone ...