Earthquake danger is not limited to one familiar crack in California. Across the country, plate boundaries, buried rifts, and ...

Salt Lake City sits beside one of the most closely watched earthquake systems in the interior West. The Wasatch fault zone and related faults can produce damaging ground shaking, surface rupture, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An area of Texas could be set to receive more earthquakes as seismic ...

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each plate, called fault stress. When this stress builds enough to ...

Typical geologic investigations of active earthquake fault zones require that the fault can be observed at or near the Earth's surface. However, in urban areas, where faults present a direct hazard to ...

Let’s get ready to (potentially) rumble. A report this week from the Los Angeles Times took a look at what a devastating earthquake could do to Los Angeles — and the lessons to be learned from the ...

Tiny tremors and temblors recently discovered in fault zones from California to Japan are generated by slow-moving earthquakes that may foreshadow catastrophic seismic events, according to scientists ...

A long rupture on the ground extending through infrastructure damage in Kumamoto Prefecture seems to confirm what ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tracy Turner, owner of the Wynola Junction, looks over pictures that fell from shelves when an earthquake hit Monday in Julian.