Utah’s worst disaster is only a coin flip away within the next half-century — and experts say they don’t want the prospect of that imminent and devastating earthquake to fade from public attention.

A second earthquake of at least 2.5 magnitude in 12 hours struck Thursday afternoon in western Washington. The 3.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded about 4.5 miles northeast of Fall City in east King ...

A light, 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck in Texas on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor ...

The Pacific Northwest typically experiences three types of earthquakes: Shallow fault quakes: Ruptures in faults located in the upper 18 miles of the Earth's crust. These earthquakes typically ...

But we also can’t forget that our Seattle fault line could be even more devastating at a lesser magnitude. It could be a 7.0 ...

Literal groundbreaking research by Dr. Giorgio Arriga enhances our understanding of the long-term evolution of seismogenic (earthquake-related) faults in the Apennines of Central Italy.

A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of earthquakes.

The earthquakes ... map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one in the same general area. Aftershocks are typically minor adjustments along the portion of a fault ...

to map the subsurface faults. Additionally, we study fault orientations to understand earthquake behaviour. These are also documented in the ‘Seismotectonic Atlas of India’ for further ...

The epicenter for all the quakes was about one mile east of Hayward, in San Francisco’s East Bay, according to the U.S. Geological Survey ...

Western Washington tends to have a higher risk of earthquakes than the eastern part of the state, since the state’s Pacific coast is closer to the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The Cascadia fault ...