We all know the San Andreas Fault is out there. Californians first learn about the looming underground threat during ...

The San Jacinto Fault, considered part of the San Andreas Fault system, has a 5% chance of magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquakes. The line begins at Cajun Pass and runs southeast through San Bernardino, ...

For more than a month, the San Francisco Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes — the ...

They are two of the West Coast’s most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: The San Andreas fault in California and the Cascadia subduction zone offshore of California’s North Coast, Oregon, ...

When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Myanmar on March 28, 2025, it wasn’t just another powerful tremor—it was a geological curveball. The quake ripped open more than 500 kilometers (317 miles) of the ...

What could the next mega-earthquake on California's notorious San Andreas fault look like? Would it be a repeat of 1857, when an earthquake estimated at magnitude 7.7 to 7.9 ruptured the fault from ...

A magnitude 3.4 earthquake occurred 16 miles north-northeast of Warner Springs at 6:52 a.m. Friday, briefly producing light shaking in parts of northern San Diego County, the U.S. Geological Survey ...

The clusters of earthquakes have all been underneath the East Bay suburb of San Ramon, which is close to the Calaveras fault.

A swarm of small earthquakes jolted San Ramon over the last month. Scientists said the earthquakes are normal and aren’t ...

Recent shaking feels dramatic but is scientifically routine Over the past few days, residents of Sonoma County have felt a handful of earthquakes — a magnitude 4.0 near Glen Ellen followed by ...

A rare, ultra-long earthquake in Myanmar revealed that mature faults can deliver their full force directly to the surface.