Most Americans think of earthquakes as a West Coast problem. The assumption makes sense on the surface. California shakes ...

Deep beneath the Pacific, one undersea fault has produced nearly identical magnitude 6 earthquakes every few years for ...

Temblors frequently strike around the world. These suggestions will help you prepare for the next quake that might rattle ...

For more than three decades, experts have been trying to solve the mystery of why a certain kind of underwater fault triggers ...

Unlike the San Andreas Fault — one of the most heavily studied faults in the world — scientists know comparatively little ...

A hidden network of earthquake faults running beneath Seattle may be far more active than scientists realized. New research ...

Scientists have finally explained why a Pacific Ocean fault has been generating repeating “clockwork” earthquakes for decades ...

Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean about 1,000 miles off the coast of Ecuador, a fault line on the seafloor has been ...

A new study suggests northern Oregon could experience stronger shaking during a major Cascadia earthquake than earlier models ...

Tracy Turner, owner of the Wynola Junction, looks over pictures that fell from shelves when an earthquake hit Monday in Julian. (Denis Poroy / Associated Press) Below California's famed beaches, ...