Rolling elevation on the East Coast, like the Appalachian Mountains, are a record of past seismic activity. Think of the way ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie ...

The impact would be doubly as devastating as predictions for the impending ‘Big One’ and leave millions in harm’s way from ...

What could the next mega-earthquake on California's notorious San Andreas fault look like? Would it be a repeat of 1857, when an earthquake estimated at magnitude 7.7 to 7.9 ruptured the fault from ...

A company that monitors electrical activity says faults along the Los Angeles power grid skyrocketed in the same areas where three of this week’s major wildfires are currently raging. Bob Marshall, ...

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