Research emerging from China points to structural vulnerabilities and geological threats which make foundation-bearing ...

Los Angeles could be edging closer to “the big one,” with new research finding earthquake stress has reached its highest ...

New analysis brings call for slope reinforcement for massive mega-dam project in Tibet to mitigate risks of landslides and ...

While analyzing strong-motion data close to fault lines, a group of researchers at Kyoto University noticed something unexpected: a negative phase in the waveforms, a pattern that did not conform to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This discovery could really shake up the Big Apple. New York City was rattled harder than some surrounding areas during last April ...

Earthquake researchers believed for decades that rock friction within fault lines follows a simple relationship with temperature. However, a new study published by the Proceedings of the National ...

What does that mean for earthquake risk?

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - The United States' most volatile fault line is overdue for an earthquake, and if one occurs, it could be catastrophic for one of California's most populated regions. The San ...

NAPA, Calif. (KGO) -- Bigger and stronger than first thought. Scientists uncover new findings about the fault line that caused the 6.0 earthquake in Napa nearly a decade ago. The earthquake in 2014 ...

Stress on the San Andreas Fault system has reached a 1,000-year high, according to new research from the University of Hawaii ...

Hurricanes are still the biggest threat to Florida, but earthquakes do occur. Could a quake like the one that rocked Venezuela ever hit Florida?

Stress accumulating in the southern San Andreas fault. (Burkhard et. al., J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 2026) It's called California's Big One for a reason. For more than a century, tectonic pressure ...