Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the biggest earthquake to hit Southern California in 20 years struck in July, a powerful fault line that could cause a ...

A recent study published in Nature Geoscience reveals large-scale vertical motion across the San Andreas Fault System. The research team, headed by Samuel Howell at the University of Hawai'i, was able ...

Over the last several weeks, earthquakes have rocked parts of the United States from Alaska to Wednesday morning's quake in Tennessee. The most recent quake registered as a magnitude 4.4, just ...

A new study shows that the San Andreas Fault continued to slip gradually for six to twelve years after the 2004 magnitude 6.0 Parkfield, California earthquake, raising the issue of continued damage to ...

A recent study has revealed extensive data on how strike-slip faults develop over time and eventually cause earthquakes at the Earth's surface. Researchers coined the movement of two plates in a ...