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

After a swarm of small quakes recently hit the Salton Sea area, seismologists warned last week that a magnitude seven earthquake could hit by Tuesday. San Diego State University geology professor Pat ...

Crowdsourced by Did You Feel It? reports, the perceptual map is a factor of not just distance and surficial geology maps, but is a reflection of if people were awake and paying attention, the building ...

Tuesday’s magnitude 7.0 earthquake was the largest recorded in Haiti since 1770, but more than a dozen quakes of that size have shaken the country’s Caribbean neighbors repeatedly over the past ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission wants more information on how an earthquake fault and sinkhole geology in Lancaster County could affect the proposed 35-mile natural gas pipeline here. FERC is ...

The largest earthquake that scientists expect to occur on faults in and around the Las Vegas Valley would be more than 1,000 times less powerful than Japan's catastrophic 9-magnitude earthquake, State ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission wants to know by next March how well the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station can withstand the shock of earthquakes. In 2012, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...

Geologists have identified evidence of an earthquake in the Dead Sea region that appears to correspond with the historical timeframe of Jesus’ crucifixion, possibly offering the first geological ...