The Hayward fault, part of the larger San Andreas fault system, runs 74 miles through the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay ...

This has scientists quaking in their boots. Researchers have found that one of the US’s most dangerous fault lines is overdue ...

Duke faculty and students are working with colleagues in Nepal to give the country more warning before deadly earthquakes ...

From the world’s largest outdoor earthquake simulator to an international network of seismic stations, UC San Diego is a living laboratory for seismic safety. Researchers across campus are trying to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers from a renowned U.S. university captured a slow slip earthquake in motion. It was captured during the act of releasing ...

New research indicates that slow-motion earthquakes or 'slow-slip events' can rupture the shallow portion of a fault that also moves in large, tsunami-generating earthquakes. The finding has important ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Despite the ever-looming threat of a major earthquake hitting the Cascadia Subduction Zone, efforts to reinforce Portland’s Burnside Bridge have been delayed. Multnomah County ...

Researchers from a renowned U.S. university captured a slow slip earthquake in motion. It was captured during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at the bottom of the ocean. A ...