On the morning the ground started shaking near Brawley, California, in mid-May 2026, the jolts did not stop after one event.

Two of the most dangerous fault systems on the U.S. West Coast may be more connected than scientists once thought. New ...

It’s every Californians worst nightmare. Now experts are warning “The Big One” could be even worse than feared due to a ...

When the ground beneath Brawley, California, started shaking in late summer 2025, it did not stop for days. Dozens of ...

It’s like a plot from a Hollywood movie. A massive earthquake on one West Coast fault triggers other earthquakes far away, causing vast destruction over hundreds of miles. A new study out Tuesday ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists say there's new evidence that two of the best-known earthquake fault lines on the West Coast are in sync and that has the potential for a major disaster. A new study by ...

Workers check damage to Interstate 880 in Oakland after it collapsed during the Loma Prieta earthquake in October 1989. (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press) They are two of the West Coast's most ...

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

Geological faults hold many secrets that may help us answer important questions about the nature of our planet and what ...

When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Myanmar on March 28, 2025, it wasn’t just another powerful tremor—it was a geological curveball. The quake ripped open more than 500 kilometers (317 miles) of the ...

Modern stressors can still trigger tremors and quakes in dormant faults Earthquakes can be felt further from their epicenter on the East Coast than out west due to the crust being older and more ...