A new scientific warning has put California’s earthquake risk in sharp focus: supershear earthquakes—rare, high-speed ...

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

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.

A massive Pacific Northwest earthquake could trigger a devastating second quake on California's San Andreas Fault, a new ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that megaquakes in the Pacific Northwest might trigger California’s San Andreas Fault. A research ship’s navigational error revealed paired sediment layers showing ...

Scientists compared sediment deposits created by underwater landslides from earthquakes within the Cascadia Subduction Zone ...

A massive March 2025 earthquake in Myanmar tore through nearly 500 kilometers of the Sagaing Fault at extremely high speeds. In a new study – part of ...

A big earthquake on the Hayward Fault could cause damage similar to deadly 1989 Loma Prieta quake, experts say. Thursday’s ...

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