One-fifth of California’s population took a few minutes out of their day on October 20, to practice earthquake preparedness as part of the Great California ShakeOut exercise. Since 2008, the drill has ...

Last summer, Yellowstone National Park was hit by a huge earthquake swarm. Over the course of three months, the park experienced over 2,500 tremors, making it one of the biggest and longest swarms on ...

On the morning of July 4, 2019, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the Searles Valley in California’s Mojave Desert, with impacts felt across Southern California. About 34 hours later on July 5, the ...

For example, earthquakes triggered by water will usually occur as fault slip on the crack (s)/fault (s) along which the fluids are propagating. That is, the two sides of the crack hosting the fluids ...

The earthquake risk for Oklahoma and southern Kansas is expected to remain significant in 2017, threatening 3 million people with seismic events that can produce damaging shaking, according to a new U ...

Commentary: Even as we were rocked by the aftershocks of Friday's (some say 6.9, other 7.9) and Monday's tremor (5.9 on the Richter scale) and the tragedy of the deaths that resulted, it seems ...

In the last couple weeks there have been claims on social media that someone is able to predict an upcoming earthquake, and some of you have even asked whether that is possible. Especially considering ...

South Carolina has been recognized as one of the most seismically active states in the country by the U.S. Geological Survey. That is why Georgetown County residents, schools and businesses are ...

Seismologists used a powerful supercomputer that incorporated data-infused and physics-based models to identify the link between the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes. On the morning of July 4, 2019, a ...