Focusing on an area off the coast of Crescent City, California, the researchers used autonomous and remotely operated ...

Seismic tremors reveal a shallow fragment of ancient tectonic plate beneath Northern California, helping explain damaging ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

Many of the state's largest earthquakes have struck near the junction, where the Pacific, North American and Gorda plates ...

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

Rock rheology governs the deformation of rocks in reaction to forces within the Earth's interior. Rheology is the scientific ...

A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck Guerrero, Mexico, but no serious damage or deaths were reported. Florida rarely experiences earthquakes as it is not located near any tectonic plate boundaries. The ...