Most Americans think of earthquakes as a West Coast problem. The assumption makes sense on the surface. California shakes ...

The ground beneath North America is not as stable as it looks. Beneath cities, suburbs, and farmland, ancient fractures in ...

This has scientists quaking in their boots. Researchers have found that one of the US’ most dangerous fault lines is overdue for an earthquake, potentially threatening millions of people across ...

Deep beneath the Pacific, one undersea fault has produced nearly identical magnitude 6 earthquakes every few years for ...

Unlike the San Andreas Fault — one of the most heavily studied faults in the world — scientists know comparatively little ...

Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean about 1,000 miles off the coast of Ecuador, a fault line on the seafloor has been ...

Scientists have finally explained why a Pacific Ocean fault has been generating repeating “clockwork” earthquakes for decades ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists say there's new evidence that two of the best-known earthquake fault lines on the West Coast are in sync and that has the potential for a major disaster. A new study by ...

University of Delaware geologist Jessica Warren has contributed to research that brings us one step closer to better ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — Early Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey detected a minor submarine earthquake on a historic fault line off the Lowcountry’s coast. At 3:48 a.m., a 2.0 magnitude ...