A once-glamorous resort was rusting away in the California desert. Then, three friends brought it—and the entire town­—back ...

Mike Davis By Mike Davis BN History Columnist Howdy neighbor! Some time ago, while digging around in the old papers and local history reports of No ...

Pressure builds up when sliding plates get stuck, increasing “very slowly for decades or for hundreds of years, and then all of a sudden the rock plates will jump,” triggering shaking that ...

According to Columbia University geophysicist Michael Steckler told Associated Press that pressure builds up when sliding plates get stuck, increasing very slowly for decades or for hundreds of years, ...

"Mostly stable, but along the edges they are moving," Steckler noted. When these plates get stuck, pressure builds over decades or centuries until "all of a sudden the rock plates will jump," causing ...