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

The magnitude 5.2 earthquake that shook most of Southern California on Monday did not result in any reported injuries or ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

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

Kammerer harvests seaweed offshore for some of his dishes, but most of his produce comes from a small farm that he bought right on the fault line ... Want to Understand California Wine?

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 ...

Unsurprisingly, California tops the list ... Many of the more vulnerable counties were located along major fault lines, such as King County in Washington, home to Seattle and which sits atop ...