Most homebuyers check school ratings, flood plains, and commute times. Very few pull up a seismic hazard map. That oversight ...

Most people picture earthquakes as a West Coast problem. California shakes regularly, the news covers it, and residents there ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, however, tells a different story. The research team—led by experts from the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers hoping to unravel the dance of earthquake movement in North America’s West Coast discovered a disturbing fact: Two of the world’s largest ...

There's a sleeping fault line that runs along the border between Canada and Alaska. The line has been dormant for millions of years as best scientists can tell. But new research suggests it could be ...

Four of Santa Rosa’s elementary schools sit near or atop parts of the Rodgers Creek Fault. What does the future hold for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the best places to visualize the geological features known as the Balcones Escarpment and Balcones Fault is Mount Bonnell.

It was a groundbreaking discovery. Scientists have found previously concealed fault lines along California’s north coast, sparking concerns that we could be drastically underestimating the earthquake ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Tintina fault is thought to have been inactive for more than 40 million years, but new research suggests that earthquakes occurred in the zone ...