Earthquake danger is not limited to one familiar crack in California. Across the country, plate boundaries, buried rifts, and active fault systems sit near cities, coastlines, transportation corridors ...

Learn more about new preprint research indicating that the San Andreas Fault is slipping faster than previously thought, and ...

The potentially significant discovery could help experts refine estimates of how often major earthquakes strike ...

Seismologists may have uncovered why Wednesday's back-to-back earthquakes struck Venezuela. The two massive earthquakes that struck Venezuela on Wednesday night killed at least 164 people and injured ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This discovery could really shake up the Big Apple. New York City was rattled harder than some surrounding areas during last April ...

Earthquake researchers believed for decades that rock friction within fault lines follows a simple relationship with temperature. However, a new study published by the Proceedings of the National ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A brand new 45-mile fault line has been discovered stretching along ...

This article is part of Shaky Ground, a collaborative reporting project between the Carlsbad Current-Argus and KRWG Public Media. A group of fault lines sit underground near Van Horn, Texas, dating up ...

A team of geologists, mineralogists and Earth and ocean scientists affiliated with institutions in Canada, the U.S. and France has discovered a 72-kilometer fault line on Canada's Vancouver Island. In ...

A little-known California fault line — already considered one of the most dangerous in the country — was rattled by another earthquake Thursday morning, shaking communities across the Bay Area and ...