Seismicity decreases with depth because elevated confining pressure prevents frictional sliding of faults. However, ...

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 consciousness.

The underground laboratory in Nevada where the U.S. conducts nuclear subcritical experiments is riddled with faults.

Nearly 1,000 feet beneath the desert of southern Nevada, a sprawling underground laboratory helps certify every warhead in ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie ...

Northwest Louisiana recently experienced a 4.9 magnitude earthquake, with residents reporting beds shaking and walls vibrating. This quake was much more intense than what’s typical in Louisiana, with ...

The Nevada Seismological Laboratory (NSL) recorded a magnitude 5.7 earthquake southeast of Lahontan Reservoir in the Dead ...

One hundred twenty years ago - on April 18, 1906 - a massive, 7.9 magnitude earthquake devastated San Francisco, rupturing ...

Exactly 120 years after the 1906 earthquake, San Francisco faces ongoing seismic risk and experts warn the city is still not ...

Tracy Turner, owner of the Wynola Junction, looks over pictures that fell from shelves when an earthquake hit Monday in Julian. (Denis Poroy / Associated Press) Below California's famed beaches, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tracy Turner, owner of the Wynola Junction, looks over pictures that fell from shelves when an earthquake hit Monday in Julian.