The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to ...

Some large earthquakes may flip direction and “boomerang” back, striking the same area twice and reshaping damage patterns.

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A smoky sunset as seen from the San Andreas fault on Pallet Creek Road in Juniper Hills on Sept. 20, 2020. (Myung J. Chun / Los ...

When it comes to emergencies and natural disasters, one of the main concerns for residents in California is earthquakes. World-renowned seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones says the San Andreas Fault is not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Workers check damage to Interstate 880 in Oakland after it collapsed during the Loma Prieta earthquake in October 1989. (Paul ...

The last week has seen earthquakes in the usual places and some in areas not often as active. There were earthquakes on the Mendocino fault, an interesting sequence in the northern Gorda plate, and an ...

Shrinking lakes across the Tibetan Plateau may be doing more than altering the region’s hydrology. New research suggests that the slow disappearance of massive water bodies over tens of thousands of ...

When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Myanmar on March 28, 2025, it wasn’t just another powerful tremor—it was a geological curveball. The quake ripped open more than 500 kilometers (317 miles) of the ...

Scientists find seismic scars in Brzegi, Poland and warn that the actual risk from an unknown fault line is much greater than believed.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.9 struck Myanmar on Wednesday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. The ...