Most Americans hear "earthquake" and immediately picture California. Crumbling freeways, shaking skyscrapers, Hollywood hills ...

A fault line does not keep a calendar, no matter how often people ask it to. That simple limitation shapes nearly everything scientists say about the San Andreas Fault. Researchers can measure strain, ...

Subtle ripples moving through the Earth are something most people will never see, but a group of researchers spent years ...

HOLLYWOOD (KABC) -- A new finalized version of a California earthquake map shows an active fault line running through Hollywood, raising questions about the Millennium Hollywood development project.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists say there's new evidence that two of the best-known earthquake fault lines on the West Coast are in sync and that has the potential for a major disaster. A new study by ...

The West Coast is years overdue for the next big earthquake. When the colossal tremor eventually strikes, seismologists expect high-rises and other buildings to collapse, massive fires that can burn ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That was not your imagination. Two earthquakes in less than a week have rattled more than the ground across North Jersey. Whenever ...

Northwest Louisiana recently experienced a significant earthquake, but just how commons are earthquakes? Movement along growth faults cause seismic activity.

After earthquakes centered in New Jersey rattled parts the New York metropolitan area twice in less than two weeks, a seismologist says it's unlikely a sign of things to come. A 3.0 magnitude ...