A major earthquake hasn’t struck any of California’s biggest cities in more than three decades, but the “Big One” is a matter ...

Randy Baxter holds on for dear life as a simulator shows him just how powerful a magnitude 7 earthquake can be.

INYO COUNTY, CA - Wednesday evening, a preliminary 2.1 magnitude quake was registered near Coso Junction, according to the ...

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

STANISLAUS COUNTY, CA - According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a preliminary 2.5 magnitude quake occurred close to ...

California is no stranger to natural disasters, and this week the state is helping residents prepare for not if, but when the next big quake hits.

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

The San Fernando Valley (locally known as “The Valley”) is an urbanized valley in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of ...

The quake’s epicenter lies in the remote waters between South America and Antarctica, where seismic activity is rare.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and Chile's SHOA marine authority had briefly issued tsunami warnings after the quake, whose depth the United States Geological Survey estimated at 10 km (6.21 miles ...

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

The impact would be doubly as devastating as predictions for the impending ‘Big One’ and leave millions in harm’s way from ...