The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to ...

An earthquake like the 2001 Nisqually quake will strike again, and it could be more damaging. What is certain is that we can make structures safer.

The quake was centered just a few hundred feet from the Lake Murray Dam, just south of Yacht Cove and Hollywood Point, according to officials.

Rainfall has been main headline today with rainfall totals nearing an inch in some of our northeastern counties in the CSRA.

Seattle is in earthquake country, and our most recent big reminder of that came 25 years ago this Saturday, when the Nisqually Earthquake shook the Puget Sound region. Seattle’s historic Pioneer ...

Understanding friction better could help scientists better understand how the Earth’s tectonic plates slide and grind during ...

The magnitude 3.0 earthquake, which struck before 6 a.m. Tuesday, is just about the smallest quake people can feel.

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake shook parts of Southern California on Jan. 19, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck about 12 miles northeast of Indio at around 5:56 p.m. PT. It caused ...

Some sounds can signal danger even before your eyes see it or your body feels it. Like the ominous ‘whumph’ before an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A flurry of seismic activity continues in South Carolina, where three more earthquakes were recorded overnight. All three of the ...