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 ...

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

Down in California, the San Andreas Fault marks the boundary where the North American and Pacific plates are sliding past ...

San Andreas, Cascadia faults could combine to produce back-to-back earthquake disasters, new research suggests – Nation and ...

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.

Although Californians are relatively familiar with the San Andreas Fault, the Cascadia Subduction Zone is in many ways more dangerous. That fault, where the Juan de Fuca Plate is subsiding underneath ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's the "Big One". The huge earthquake Californians are hoping doesn't hit struck Tuesday night at the TCL Chinese Theatre with the premiere of "San Andreas," Dwayne Johnson's ...

A new report studied a massive earthquake that ruptured in the southeast Asian country of Myanmar on March 28 — on a fault known for being eerily similar to California’s notorious San Andreas fault.