A late-night 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook the Pacific Ocean off the Northern California coastline, the U.S. Geological ...

A preliminary 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck Northern California on Saturday night, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Without question, the 7.0 magnitude earthquake offshore off Cape Mendocino on Dec. 5 was large and potentially destructive. For some perspective, over the last 100 years there have been seven ...

Loma Prieta has become an event of the distant past, while future tectonic disasters are sorely overlooked." With a record 15 seismic earthquake sequences occurring in Southern California just this ...

Last week's earthquake off the coast of Humboldt County triggered a tsunami warning urging people across a huge swath of California and Oregon to evacuate. Why aren't tsunami warnings more precise?

Last week's earthquake off the coast of Humboldt County triggered a tsunami warning urging people across a huge swath of California and Oregon to evacuate. Why aren't tsunami warnings more precise?

New research reveals a promising method to predict earthquakes by studying ancient curved scratches on fault surfaces. Stay ...

After a powerful earthquake struck the California coast in December 2024, social media users claimed the state witnessed a ...

The Pacific West Coast has the highest risk levels of tsunamis in the United States. Here’s where they have stuck in Northern ...

Of arguably greater importance, by shrinking the distance between humans and machines railroads enabled monumental surges in ...

In the Bay Area over the next 30 years, there is a greater than two in three chance that we will experience above a magnitude ...

The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that rattled a large swath of Northern California likely increased spawning activity in fish to ...