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

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

The morning of January 9, 1857, made people think that it was the end of the world. A California rancher named John Barker dismounted his horse on the shore of Tulare Lake. Before the horse could sip ...

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

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 ...

The impact would be doubly as devastating as predictions for the impending ‘Big One’ and leave millions in harm’s way from ...

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.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A rumbling out at sea this week could be a warning of a big earthquake coming to California and little ripple in waters southeast of Palm Springs may be the precursor to "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 ...

An earthquake struck near the High Desert community of Pearblossom, and along the San Andreas Fault. The magnitude 3.3 quake struck at 10:49 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 8, four miles south of Pearblossom in ...