At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

When Julian Lozos visited the site of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes two days after the event, he noticed something strange.

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and ...

Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie Rowe of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno and Alex Hatem of the U.S. Geological Survey sought ...

A preliminary 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck near San Diego, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake's epicenter ...

California is no stranger to earthquakes, but the risk of earthquakes hitting San Diego County specifically lies on the fact ...

The Federal Aviation Administration's recent surge in controller applicants should tell anyone how vital air traffic control ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...