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

They’ve shared the singles “Ancient Light” and “Find My Way To You,” and today they’ve got another one called “Standing On The Fault Line.” According to the press release ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

The 5.2-magnitude earthquake on Monday shook the ground and nerves in San Diego, but some scientists were already scanning the ocean floor for tremors.

When Julian Lozos visited the site of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes two days after the event, he noticed something strange.

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

"Scientists dredged rocks and mapped the seafloor to find new fault lines, underwater landslides and potential tsunami triggers. “This tsunami could be dangerous for the coastal communities and ...

But the stronger-than-expected tremor has brought into focus its source, the somewhat obscure but dangerous Elsinore fault. The Elsinore runs 190 miles long and "extends from near the U.S.-Mexico ...

The Elsinore fault is a separate fault line but still part of the larger San Andreas fault system, a group of faults that work together to handle the movement of tectonic plates in California.

Also well known in L.A. is the Newport-Inglewood fault, which unleashed the 1933 Long Beach earthquake — the deadliest temblor in Southern California’s modern history. The large earthquake ...