Earthquake danger is not limited to one familiar crack in California. Across the country, plate boundaries, buried rifts, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This discovery could really shake up the Big Apple. New York City was rattled harder than some surrounding areas during last April ...

Earthquake researchers believed for decades that rock friction within fault lines follows a simple relationship with temperature. However, a new study published by the Proceedings of the National ...

A group of fault lines sit underground near Van Horn, Texas, dating up to 1.6 million years old, according to a map published by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) While the fault lines might have been ...

A long rupture on the ground extending through infrastructure damage in Kumamoto Prefecture seems to confirm what ...

While analyzing strong-motion data close to fault lines, a group of researchers at Kyoto University noticed something unexpected: a negative phase in the waveforms, a pattern that did not conform to ...

Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Inca citadel perched at roughly 2,430 meters in Peru’s Eastern Cordillera, sits directly atop ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Tintina fault is thought to have been inactive for more than 40 million years, but new research suggests that earthquakes occurred in the zone ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A brand new 45-mile fault line has been discovered stretching along ...

The San Andreas fault is an 800-mile-long fracture in the Earth that is “capable of a catastrophic quake,” according to the L.A. Times. Some experts say a magnitude 8.2 earthquake is possible, which ...

This article is part of Shaky Ground, a collaborative reporting project between the Carlsbad Current-Argus and KRWG Public Media. A group of fault lines sit underground near Van Horn, Texas, dating up ...