California’s insurance commissioner says the tradeoffs involved in managing wildfire risk have made his position politically ...

The owners of several thousand San Francisco concrete buildings will soon be required to undertake preliminary seismic screenings to determine whether their structures are at risk of collapse in a ...

(Reuters) -A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Drake Passage between Cape Horn and Antarctica at a depth of just 10 km (6 miles) on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said.

The next major Pacific Northwest earthquake could cause coastal land to sink by up to 6.5 feet in a matter of minutes — and ...