In short, the United States and the entire world are safer from earthquakes thanks to 20 years of testing life-sized buildings and other large structures at UC San Diego’s large, outdoor earthquake ...

An earthquake has struck California as experts warn that the long-feared “Big One” could be approaching. The US Geological ...

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

More than a dozen earthquakes have rattled the area in less than 48 hours, including some as strong as magnitude 3.2.

A huge earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale has rocked the Greek island of Rhodes today. The earthquake was felt ...

A recent study from Utah State University geoscientists explores the characteristics of rocks from a fault zone in Utah.

a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program. She pointed to footage from a Taiwan maternity ward during a 7.4-magnitude quake last year, when an alert sent a trio of ...

In the U.S., this preparation hinges in large part on the expertise of scientists and engineers in federal agencies who develop earthquake hazard models and contribute to the creation of building ...