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

There’s not much better in life, as far as I’ve discovered, than sitting outside on a deck over the water at one of the renovated fishermen’s shacks at Nick’s Cove, an inn and restaurant ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

Below California's famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults—some so infamous ...

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 ...

This movement is known as ... At the heart of the San Andreas Fault’s seismic activity lies the relentless motion of tectonic plates. The Pacific Plate and the North American Plate are ...

California has experienced several earthquakes in just a few hours. Most of the seismic activity was detected along the fault ...

The place is so peaceful that you’d hardly guess that the San Andreas Fault, that tumultuous collision of two vast tectonic plates, runs directly under the water in front of you. It bisects ...

The latest quake struck along the San Andreas fault that spans 800 ... The vast majority of earthquakes result from the constant movement of tectonic plates, which are massive, solid slabs of ...

The deadly earthquake that struck near Mandalay on Friday was caused by “strike-slip faulting” along the boundary of the India and Eurasia plates.

The massive Sagaing fault between the Burma and Sunda tectonic plates broke "very fast" and was ... very northern part of ...

Devastating earthquake in Myanmar reveals tectonic complexities, historical patterns, and potential risks for South Asia.