An instrument called an interrogator allows researchers to effectively hijack fiber optic cables for use as thousands of ...

Some experts now agree that the likelihood of the long-feared “Big One” striking has significantly increased between now and 2032. Sarah Minson, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), ...

In a worst-case scenario, escalating civil unrest in the US following a West Coast earthquake could result in a loss of more ...

A massive quake might drop the Pacific Northwest coastline by 6 feet, redrawing flood maps and putting thousands of homes at risk.

But a new study found a long-feared, deadly earthquake off Northern California could cause catastrophic flooding. The report says coastal areas could shrink by more than six feet in a matter of ...

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 ...

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

SAN FRANCISCO – In the classic film “The Birds,’’ flocks of crows and other species suddenly and viciously attack people for no apparent reason. Now another Bay Area-based mystery has ...

California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.

The funding loss has the city of San Jose delaying new rules requiring retrofits to certain wood-frame apartment buildings ...