A SpaceX spacecraft caused a sonic boom over California as it returned to Earth's atmosphere. The SpaceX Dragon was returning from a supply run to the International Space Station when it broke the ...

The Great Alaska Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the United States. Its violent tremors reshaped ...

Could a monster earthquake sink a portion of Northern California? A new study calculates the risk of where and how much land ...

Nearly a mile deep, the Pacific Ocean volcano known as Axial Seamount is drawing increasing scrutiny from scientists who only ...

California has experienced multiple earthquakes in the last two minutes in an area being closely monitored for a major quake.

Authorities are investigating what appear to be radical views that Guy Edward Bartkus expressed online in the months before ...

The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in southern Washington claimed 57 lives and blasted the terrain of old-growth ...

Minor quakes can disrupt natural tectonic patterns deep underground and change stress landscape, new study finds.

California confronts what officials say is an unprecedented confluence of forces that will test its long history as the ...

A security camera near Thazi, Myanmar, captured the earth cracking during a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in March.

LOS ANGELES — California eclipsed Japan in 2024 to become the fourth-largest economy in the world. Gov. Gavin Newsom ...