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?

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

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 ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Fault lines are fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates move past each other, often resulting in earthquakes. These geological features are classified into ...

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 ...