A USGS “shake map” for the event showed ... Culpeper and Front Royal. The earthquake occurred along the Central Virginia Seismic Zone, the same fault line that produced one of the strongest ...

As the viral shaking in New York City in 2024 illustrated, earthquakes stoked by shifting faults do rattle the Eastern ... even abandoned lines or heaps of steel rail can create the static spark ...

Signs with the slogan “It’s Our Fault” line ... earthquakes, which made the Mississippi River run backward, created temporary waterfalls and largely vanquished New Madrid from the map.

Jan. 26, 2025, marks 325 years since the last great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone. It’s a time to reflect on what we’ve learned about this largest fault system in the lower 48 states ...

Comparison with previous great earthquakes reveals that ETS now clearly maps out the edge of the locked part of the subduction fault in Japan (S. Miyazaki, Earthquake Research Institute, Japan ...

Millions of Americans are under weather warnings or advisories today as the U.S. braces for a new winter storm this week. A ...

As the L.A. fires rage, we’re reminded of movies, books and songs that speak to the city’s love-hate relationship with the forces that shape it.

See maps of where the fires have spread ... It identified multiple “faults” — where a power line has either come into contact with vegetation or another line, and releases sparks — during ...

Perhaps most significantly in shifting the Electoral College map, Trump has tipped Ohio and ... Delaware and California (plus Washington, DC) rank among the half of states with the highest share ...

The “red line” that President Barack Obama drew ... In the predawn hours of Feb. 6, 2023, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake convulsed the ground beneath the Turkish borderlands where more than ...

Early moments: While it remained unclear what started the fires, power lines near the Eaton and Palisades ... just as a municipal leader but also as a Washington-style global player.