Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s ...

When should we get ready?" Goulet, director of the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Science Center in Los Angeles, told ...

California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.

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

New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake ...

Depending on the location, there may be secondary hazards triggered by earthquakes, such as landslides, fires or tsunamis, he said.

McLennan County officials seek public input for their five-year hazard mitigation plan addressing tornadoes, wildfires, ...

At 4.1 magnitude near Greenback, the May 10 quake was large for our area. Experts look back on the last earthquakes to ...

New Madrid, Missouri, was terrorized by its fault line in the early 19th century, and earthquakes are still the region's ...

Here are three things to know about how and why this earthquake ... according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Hazards Program. Strike-slip earthquakes occur when two blocks of ...

What to Know About Earthquakes Like the One ... Depending on the location, there may be secondary hazards triggered by earthquakes, such as landslides, fires or tsunamis, he said.

Depending on the location, there may be secondary hazards triggered by earthquakes, such as landslides, fires or tsunamis, he said. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives ...