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

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

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 magnitude 5.2 earthquake that shook most of Southern California on Monday did not result in any reported injuries or ...

Map 1: Emerging Central Gold District with Extensive Gold Bearing Faults Ken Lapierre, President and CEO of Rocky Shore commented, “This is an exciting time to be shareholders of Rocky Shore Gold.

Sequoia National Forest — in the Sierra Nevada northeast of Bakersfield — was once busy with timber production.

According to the USGS map, the quake was felt widely across Southern California and into Mexico. Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones said this earthquake is likely associated with the Elsinore Fault ...

The California Geological Survey’s fault map shows the greater Elsinore fault zone stretching from the Mexican border through the Riverside County cities of Temecula, Murrieta and Lake Elsinore.

"We do have a way of guessing at what the fault would be. We can't actually confirm it's on a particular fault without it coming up to the surface," Jones said. "That's one of our major faults in ...

“It literally looked like the gates of hell.” At 10:50 p.m., a caller spots a flaming roof on East Calaveras Street — the first sign that flying embers may be threatening west Altadena ...

The bill would repeal the state's no-fault insurance law. In Florida, there is a no-fault auto insurance that means all drivers must have personal injury protection to cover their own medical ...