In earthquake country, Marin sits at ground zero. With a myriad of faults, the entire Bay Area is susceptible to the shaking of the earth, but Marin is faced with the San Andreas to the west, the ...

Two of the biggest fault lines in the world are synched together in a way that could lead to disastrous consequences, according to recent scientific analysis. This synchronization raises alarms about ...

First quakes are the most dangerous: Once a healed fault ruptures for the first time, it cannot generate another major ...

As much as we would all like to just accept that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson could indeed fight the San Andreas fault and defeat an earthquake with just his raised eyebrow and amazing biceps, it's ...

For years, textbooks taught that shallow faults—cracks in the Earth’s upper crust—were too stable to cause earthquakes. Once ...

After finding more than 300 surface faults in Harris County, a geologist now has information that could be vitally useful to the region's builders and city planners. This information -- the most ...

A major California fault once thought to be stable is quietly shifting beneath neighborhoods, schools, and it could lead to a powerful quake with no warning. A new US geological (USGS) survey showed ...

Officials of the California Geological Survey marked the agency's 150th anniversary Tuesday by releasing two updated maps revealing the latest information on all the state's active seismic faults, as ...

Shaken by two earthquakes in a weeks time, many in East Texans are wondering will there be more, and is there the possibility of a big quake? An expert in the field who explains that , while there may ...

Researchers unveiled a physical model that yields an unprecedented, high-resolution look at the slip rates of faults, which determine the likelihood of earthquakes. In a new paper recently published ...