Thursday’s 3.1 magnitude earthquake was the latest of five notable aftershocks to hit Berkeley since a 4.3 magnitude ...
An earthquake hits the San Francisco Bay Area on October 17, 1989, killing 67 people and causing more than $5 billion in damages. Though this was one of the most powerful and destructive earthquakes ...
Scientists from Oregon State University studying sediment layers in the Pacific Ocean have discovered that two of the most notorious faults on the West Coast — the San Andreas Fault in Northern ...
A retired scientist with the USGS worries about the impact the government shutdown is having on the agency's earthquake ...
Down in California, the San Andreas Fault marks the boundary where the North American and Pacific plates are sliding past ...
A specific type of earthquake that can cause particularly intense shaking is more common than previously believed, some ...
The most widespread way is through Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), which sends loud alerts to all cellphones. If an ...
San Andreas, Cascadia faults could combine to produce back-to-back earthquake disasters, new research suggests – Nation and ...
These are two very different fault systems, but the sediment record suggests that in the past, at least three San Andreas ...