At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and ...

Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie Rowe of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno and Alex Hatem of the U.S. Geological Survey sought ...

The magnitude 5.2 earthquake that shook most of Southern California on Monday did not result in any reported injuries or ...

When Julian Lozos visited the site of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes two days after the event, he noticed something strange.

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurred three miles south of Julian at 10:08 a.m. Monday, shaking much of Southern California, ...

The quake struck 8.3 miles deep near the Elsinore fault zone, one of the busiest seismic areas in California and part of the ...

one of the world’s largest and most active fault zones. The San Andreas runs more than 800 miles long and divides the state into two tectonic plates, the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

Dehradun: Following the powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake near Mandalay, Myanmar, on March 28, scientists have confirmed that ...