A new study of California's earthquakes say that building pressure underneath two major fault lines converging at Cajon Pass ...

Earthquakes and California go together in most people's minds like wildfires and dry summers. The association is ...

Los Angeles could see a major earthquake ...

Venezuela’s powerful quakes come as a study finds Southern California fault stress at a 1,000-year high.

Stress accumulating in the southern San Andreas fault. (Burkhard et. al., J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 2026) It's called ...

What does that mean for earthquake risk?

While analyzing strong-motion data close to fault lines, a group of researchers at Kyoto University noticed something unexpected: a negative phase in the waveforms, a pattern that did not conform to ...

Earthquake researchers believed for decades that rock friction within fault lines follows a simple relationship with temperature. However, a new study published by the Proceedings of the National ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - The United States' most volatile fault line is overdue for an earthquake, and if one occurs, it could be catastrophic for one of California's most populated regions. The San ...

Hurricanes are still the biggest threat to Florida, but earthquakes do occur. Could a quake like the one that rocked ...