A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major ...

Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists ...

Clusters of small quakes can be unsettling to Californians, but scientists say they rarely signal that a major quake is ...

Tens of thousands of hidden earthquakes were recently discovered beneath the Yellowstone volcano by a group of international ...

What could happen if a magnitude 20 earthquake struck Earth. Tommy Lee Jones and family release statement after daughter ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in ...

Simon Hughes visits Asni, a village in the Atlas Mountains that was almost completely destroyed in the disaster but has since ...

Invisible earthquakes are revealing a hidden tectonic puzzle beneath California’s most dangerous fault zone.

Earth's crust is the planet's outermost layer. It is made of solid rock and sits on top of another layer, called the mantle.

Belief in "earthquake weather" is common, especially in California, but scientists are clear that there is no such thing. Weather systems, including rain, wind, temperature changes, or barometric ...

The first “Big One” earthquake in more than a decade has rattled the world. What if it had happened anywhere else? Say, ...