Geophysicists at the University of California, Riverside have received a $4.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of earthquake fault systems. Such systems occur ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Members of the news media are invited to the University at Buffalo North Campus on Friday, June 7, for a series of earthquake tests. Researchers will use a shake table – a large ...

The Hayward fault, part of the larger San Andreas fault system, runs 74 miles through the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The fault is overdue for an earthquake that could cause extensive ...

Earthquake early warning times for a magnitude-9 event with an epicenter in southern Oregon. With a lower alert threshold (left) some locations closest to the source feel the ground shake before the ...

An earthquake forecast for the State of California was released by USGS, Southern California Earthquake Center and the California Geological Survey in 2008. It states that there is a greater than 99% ...

An earthquake typically sets off ruptures that ripple out from its underground origins. But on rare occasions, seismologists have observed quakes that reverse course, further shaking up areas that ...

The Hayward fault, part of the larger San Andreas fault system, runs 74 miles through the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The fault is overdue for an earthquake that could cause extensive ...