Most Americans hear "earthquake" and immediately picture California. Crumbling freeways, shaking skyscrapers, Hollywood hills ...

A fault line does not keep a calendar, no matter how often people ask it to. That simple limitation shapes nearly everything scientists say about the San Andreas Fault. Researchers can measure strain, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Over the past couple of decades there have been a few small earthquakes of magnitude 3 to 4 detected along the Tintina Fault, but ...

Subtle ripples moving through the Earth are something most people will never see, but a group of researchers spent years ...

HOLLYWOOD (KABC) -- A new finalized version of a California earthquake map shows an active fault line running through Hollywood, raising questions about the Millennium Hollywood development project.

There's a sleeping fault line that runs along the border between Canada and Alaska. The line has been dormant for millions of years as best scientists can tell. But new research suggests it could be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That was not your imagination. Two earthquakes in less than a week have rattled more than the ground across North Jersey. Whenever ...

Northwest Louisiana recently experienced a significant earthquake, but just how commons are earthquakes? Movement along growth faults cause seismic activity.

Small recreational vehicle driving the Dempster Highway near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Credit - Robert Postma/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group—Getty Images High up in Canada’s Yukon ...