Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in the country's far east. Originating at a depth of roughly 20 kilometers, today's ...

They are two of the West Coast's most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: the San Andreas fault in California and the Cascadia subduction zone offshore of California's North Coast, Oregon, ...

In 1954, a powerful earthquake shook Northern California near Humboldt Bay, baffling scientists for decades. Most quakes in the region come from the Gorda Plate, but this one didn’t fit the pattern.

Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the country’s far east. Originating at a depth of roughly 20 kilometres, today’s ...

California's fearsome 'Big One' earthquake looks increasingly like it might actually be two, scientists have warned. Researchers uncovered the strongest evidence yet that a tremor along the infamous ...

California's fearsome 'Big One' earthquake looks increasingly like it might actually be two, scientists have warned. Researchers uncovered the strongest evidence yet that a tremor along the infamous ...

Whenever a major earthquake strikes, the following question tends to come up: Is that sort of quake possible in the Bay Area? The answer comes down to how the Bay Area's earthquake faults are ...

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