SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — California is no stranger to earthquakes, but the risk of earthquakes hitting San Diego County specifically lies on the fact that it rests on multiple active faults. There are ...

Invisible earthquakes are revealing a hidden tectonic puzzle beneath California’s most dangerous fault zone.

The Pacific Ring of Fire is living up to its name, with scientists tracking a chain of restless faults and volcanoes that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tracy Turner, owner of the Wynola Junction, looks over pictures that fell from shelves when an earthquake hit Monday in Julian.

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer questions about the Balcones Escarpment and the Balcones Fault ...

An area of Texas could be set to receive more earthquakes as seismic activity moves along a newly activated fault zone. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin looked at seven years' worth ...

Scientists uncover hidden faults beneath Northern California’s Mendocino triple junction. The discovery reshapes ...

The Seattle fault zone is a network of shallow faults slicing through the lowlands of Puget Sound, threatening to create damaging earthquakes for the more than four million people who live there. A ...

The field of geodynamics encompasses the study of the physical processes that govern the evolution of the Earth’s lithosphere, with a particular emphasis on tectonic motions and deformation patterns.

Scientists discover ultra-weak faults near the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Haiti that continued to slip for weeks.

A pair of moderate earthquakes that shook Northern California on Thursday and Friday happened near a region known as the Almanor Fault Zone, marking the two strongest temblors in almost a decade for a ...