Seismic tremors reveal a shallow fragment of ancient tectonic plate beneath Northern California, helping explain damaging ...

Many of the state's largest earthquakes have struck near the junction, where the Pacific, North American and Gorda plates ...

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in ...

Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists ...

Invisible earthquakes are revealing a hidden tectonic puzzle beneath California’s most dangerous fault zone.

Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected rattling Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier.

Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some time now. She’s not alone: scientists estimate at ...

For her groundbreaking work in creating the earthquake information “hub” of the Earthquake Hazards Program, of the U.S.

PASADENA, Calif. -- Dr. Lucy Jones has been the face of earthquake science in Southern California for decades. As the Ridgecrest earthquakes have rattled the Southland this week, Jones has made ...

Deep beneath the surface, our planet is a reactor, and one of the ways you'll feel this activity is when there's an earthquake. Earthquakes are violent shaking from the planet's surface, according to ...