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

A moderately strong, 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Monday, according to the United States ...

Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie Rowe of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno and Alex Hatem of the U.S. Geological Survey sought ...

Alameda County, Mendocino County, San Bernadino County, and San Mateo County are all featured in the top 10, at fifth, seventh, ninth, and 10th respectively. The largest cities in each respectively ...

We take a look at some of the world's most devastating and highest-recorded earthquakes that have led to mass destruction. The huge 8.8 tremor that hit the South American country led to the loss ...

A catastrophic 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck in Myanmar on ... any other in recorded history and was recorded nearly world-wide on tide gauges in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans ...

The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5. off the coast of Chile near Valdivia and Puerto Montt area.