In short, the United States and the entire world are safer from earthquakes thanks to 20 years of testing life-sized buildings and other large structures at UC San Diego’s large, outdoor earthquake ...

By luck of geology, the Pacific Northwest coast isn’t being hit nearly as hard as other areas of the world by climate change-driven sea level rise.

An earthquake has struck California 's Bay Area right along a fault line experts now fear may be the surprise cause of the ...

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake shook the Northern California area, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The more than 9-mile deep quake hit a little over half a mile south of Concord at 12:11 p.m. on ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could ‘revolutionize’ earthquake monitoring and provide researchers the ability to ...

California’s most feared natural disaster might be closer than we think. Scientists now say there’s a 72% chance that a ...

California was hit by an earthquake on Wednesday. Dozens of people reported shaking within 100 miles of the epicenter, which ...

California was hit by an earthquake on Wednesday. Dozens of people reported shaking within 100 miles of the epicenter, which ...

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

A recent Virginia Tech study reveals that the Pacific Northwest faces a heightened risk of catastrophic flooding and ...

A SpaceX spacecraft has caused a sonic boom over California as it returned to Earth's atmosphere, and some on social media ...

The tsunami wave from an anticipated earthquake off the West Coast could reach 100 feet and permanently flood parts of the ...