Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

The rocks themselves are telling us this is an important process,” Stanford geophysicist Eric Dunham said in a 2020 interview ...

Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault ...

A recent study from Utah State University geoscientists explores the characteristics of rocks from a fault zone in Utah.

As Utah’s “geological clock” continues to tick closer and closer to its next big earthquake, researchers at the University of ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, dormant for over 300 years, poses a significant threat to the Pacific Northwest. A future ...

New Madrid, Missouri, was terrorized by its fault line in the early 19th century, and earthquakes are still the region's ...

More than a dozen earthquakes have rattled Central Idaho since Sunday morning in an “unusual flurry” of activity, according ...

California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.

An earthquake near Greenback, Tennessee, shook East Tennessee early Saturday morning. It was the largest quake in the region ...