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

Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 ...

Monday's major earthquake in Southern California has reignited fears that the 'Big One' is coming , but scientists say it may ...

About 70% of the earth’s surface is ocean, yet only 5% of the world’s oceans have been explored. One matter overlooked by the ...

A new study suggests risky human behavior, not aggression by alligators, is the leading cause of alligator bites.

Myanmar’s capital, Naypyidaw, along Mandalay and Sagaing regions were the hardest hit. The death toll in Myanmar surpassed ...

Kabul: In the early hours of Wednesday, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan, sending ...

A preliminary 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck near San Diego, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake's epicenter ...

A herd of African elephants instinctively circled their young in a protective huddle as a 5.2 magnitude earthquake near the ...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake near Julian rattled much of Southern California and Tijuana just after 10 a.m. Monday, prompting ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 hit Southern California on Monday morning. Experts with the Seismological ...