Americans have long lived in fear of the 'Big One' - an earthquake so enormous it would devastate the West Coast. The harrowing images of Thailand and Myanmar on Friday morning after a 7.7 magnitude ...

In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

Fault zones are often wide, branching networks rather than narrow lines, requiring a shift to 3D models for better earthquake ...

Federal cuts to the U.S. Geological Survey have prompted fears of losing vital information on earthquake activity and ...

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Scientists say the size of earthquake faults may have been previously underestimated, extending potentially dangerous ...

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