A new study published in ‘JGR Solid Earth’ found that California is “overdue” for a major earthquake compared to four other ...

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake struck early Friday morning off the coast of Northern California, according to the USGS.

According to a recent studypublished in JGR Solid Earth, nearly half of California’s fault lines—including the infamous San ...

California's earthquakes are far more likely to be "overdue" compared with earthquakes in the rest of the world.

Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the real contact area between fault surfaces to the ...

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco area in California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The 6-mile deep ...

Scientists have built a lab model that visually tracks how microscopic contact points between fault surfaces evolve during ...