The Hayward fault, part of the larger San Andreas fault system, runs 74 miles through the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay ...

Four of Santa Rosa’s elementary schools sit near or atop parts of the Rodgers Creek Fault. What does the future hold for ...

While analyzing strong-motion data close to fault lines, a group of researchers at Kyoto University noticed something ...

In the winter of 923, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the heart of Puget Sound. Shorelines slid into the water, the ...

One hundred twenty years ago - on April 18, 1906 - a massive, 7.9 magnitude earthquake devastated San Francisco, rupturing ...

The Tintina, a major geologic fault that extends 1,000 km northwestward across much of the Yukon Territory, was thought to have been inactive for at least 40 million years, but new research led by a ...

A major California fault once thought to be stable is quietly shifting beneath neighborhoods, schools, and it could lead to a powerful quake with no warning. A new US geological (USGS) survey showed ...

NAPA, Calif. (KGO) -- Bigger and stronger than first thought. Scientists uncover new findings about the fault line that caused the 6.0 earthquake in Napa nearly a decade ago. The earthquake in 2014 ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Fault lines are fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates move past each other, often resulting in earthquakes. These geological features are classified into three ...