While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and ...

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

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Below California's famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state's ...

The magnitude 5.2 earthquake that shook most of Southern California on Monday did not result in any reported injuries or damage. But the stronger-than-expected tremor has brought into focus its ...

In 2017, USGS ran a simulation of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake along the Elsinore fault, running northwest into the connecting Whittier fault line - which is closer to Los Angeles. In Los Angeles ...

A power outage on Sunday left nearly 3,000 households and businesses in the dark for nearly three hours, just as those Easter hams and fixings should have been ...