An area in the Pacific Northwest lies on a 'subduction' zone where a tectonic plate slides underneath the North American ...

In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong ...

A powerful 5.2 magnitude earthquake rattled the San Diego County area Monday morning but did not appear to cause any major ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

An earthquake with a 5.2 preliminary magnitude was reported near Julian, California on April 14, according to the U.S.

California is no stranger to earthquakes, but the risk of earthquakes hitting San Diego County specifically lies on the fact ...

KTLA California Interactive Earthquake Map So far, there have been no reports ... according to the USGS. In North America, only Alaska records more quakes per year than California.

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office said that there had been no ...