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 ...

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

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 collective ...

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 ...

Based on evidence collected in the aftermath of the recent Myanmar earthquake, countries and large metropolitan areas, such as Bangkok and Hanoi, may not be located on fault lines, yet they are ...

Dating of cosmogenic chlorine isotopes yields long-term estimates of fault activity in Italy, showing that periods of ...