Heavy snow and multiple spinouts Thursday morning had officials holding all traffic on Interstate 80 at the California and ...

Scientists have discovered evidence that California is actually peeling apart below the surface, as dense rocks under the ...

To better understand when a big earthquake is coming, there are earthquake monitoring stations across the state in remote locations.

The statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides nearly one-third of California’s water supply, began the year in good ...

Conclusive evidence of foundering, however, has been hard to come by. Peering deep under California's Sierra Nevada, Vera Schulte-Pelkum and Deborah Kilb discovered new evidence of lithospheric ...

Getting through the Sierra Nevada would require fortitude, technology -- and the sacrifice of many workers' lives. The Big Obstacle In August 1865 early snows defeated the Central Pacific's ...

We also monitor eastern California and the Sierra Nevada,” explained ... between metro Las Vegas and some of the big faults that are along the Nevada/ California border. It’s a critical ...