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 ...

The Julian earthquake is worth closer examination not for its size or damage (there was very little), but for a demonstration ...

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

A massive 7.7 earthquake and powerful aftershock struck near Mandalay, Burma, shaking buildings and damaging infrastructure ...

Below California's famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so ...

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

According to USGS' list of latest earthquakes, there have been eight aftershocks reported near Julian, California. Most of them were around a 2.6 or 2.8 magnitude. The strongest was a magnitude 4.0 ...

A herd of African elephants instinctively circled their young in a protective huddle as a 5.2 magnitude earthquake near the ...