Southern California’s last magnitude 7.9 earthquake occurred in 1857 ... upon which sits San Francisco, the Central Valley and Big Bear Lake. That strain accumulates over decades and centuries ...

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...

Seismologists studying earthquake patterns in California have uncovered extraordinary evidence of a rare geological process ...

In many Iranian cities, the ground is sinking due to land subsidence caused by the excessive extraction of water resources, ...

While disaster can strike at any time, an unusual number of tragic events seem to take place on a few inauspicious days in April. Eerie coincidence?

In 1988, seismologists tested this logic by observing a section of the San Andreas fault near the town of Parkfield, in central California. The area had produced six earthquakes of a magnitude 6.0 ...

While disaster can strike at any time, an unusual amount of tragic events seem to take place on a few inauspicious days in mid-April.

Usually, the federal facility—at the northern end of California's Central Valley—releases ... Some say that rising sea levels and earthquakes threaten its structure, and since Hurricane ...

At 5:13 a.m. on April 18, 1906, an earthquake struck San Francisco, California. Around 3,000 people were killed ... Nearly 30,000 buildings were lost, wiping out most homes and almost the entire ...

Millions of people across Southern California learned about a 5.2-magnitude earthquake that hit San Diego County on Monday ...

Earthquakes are far from uncommon in Southern California, but the region has been impacted by a large number of temblors in recent months, raising some concerns amongst residents. Seismologists ...