Accidental landing of a research vessel in the San Andreas zone revealed the repeating patterns tribuldite in its core.

Sediment cores recovered from the Pacific seafloor suggest that megathrust earthquakes along the Cascadia subduction zone may ...

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and ...

A specific type of earthquake that can cause particularly intense shaking is more common than previously believed, some ...

A Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is coming for the Pacific Northwest, and when it hits, scientists now believe, it could cause the San Andreas fault in California to go off.

Samples from the seafloor reveal evidence of several earthquakes along the West Coast’s two major fault zones happening in ...

The relationship between the sites means an earthquake in one zone can trigger an earthquake in the other in a phenomenon ...

LONG BEACH, California -- During an earthquake study conference in Long Beach, a local expert said California's infamous San Andreas fault is due for a massive quake. "The San Andreas fault is locked, ...

What could the next mega-earthquake on California's notorious San Andreas fault look like? Would it be a repeat of 1857, when an earthquake estimated at magnitude 7.7 to 7.9 ruptured the fault from ...

When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Myanmar on March 28, 2025, it wasn’t just another powerful tremor—it was a geological curveball. The quake ripped open more than 500 kilometers (317 miles) of the ...

Seismologist Lucy Jones finds fault with the disaster film “San Andreas." — -- The movie “San Andreas” opened big at the box office this weekend, but the film’s over-the-top depiction of the ...

LOS ANGELES — What could the next mega-earthquake on California’s notorious San Andreas fault look like? Would it be a repeat of 1857, when an earthquake estimated at magnitude 7.7 to 7.9 ruptured the ...