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 ...

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Past is prologue for geology's new breed (Brian Atwater in a Washington state "ghost forest," created ... This one is now called the Seattle fault zone. It runs west to east for at least 40 ...

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Fault zones are often wide, branching networks rather than narrow lines, requiring a shift to 3D models for better earthquake ...

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 ...

Some North County train services canceled or delayed after earthquake She said Monday’s earthquake was the largest recorded in decades on the Elsinore Fault zone. “That’s kind of a little ...