A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

Experts say that while it has been quiet after Monday's quake, the risk of one or more aftershocks is not out of the question ...

N​early 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake, according to a recently updated USGS map.

January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia subduction zone. Centuries later, the ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat ...

While earthquakes have caused disasters since early California, destruction from wildfires is a modern phenomenon ...

California's Fair Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, may be unable to pay billions in claims arising from the Los ...

"The same physical process will take place in both cases — the explosive spring of the bent plates will release in the same ...

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the ...

January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Centuries later, the ...

Seismologist posits that the Summerville 'ghost light' is linked to “earthquake lights”—a rare and poorly understood ...

A re-examination of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake disproved earlier claims of a record-breaking deep aftershock in the ...