Most homebuyers check school ratings, flood plains, and commute times. Very few pull up a seismic hazard map. That oversight can be costly, sometimes catastrophically so, because a handful of fault ...

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 ...

Most people picture earthquakes as a West Coast problem. California shakes regularly, the news covers it, and residents there have grown accustomed to a certain background level of geological anxiety.

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 ...

Cajon Pass may allow an earthquake to occur along two fault lines simultaneously. | Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images California is tense, or at least its fault lines are. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

What does that mean for earthquake risk?

Two earthquakes rocked California in back-to-back days as fears about two major fault lines have been “real and growing.” A ...

Hurricanes are still the biggest threat to Florida, but earthquakes do occur. Could a quake like the one that rocked Venezuela ever hit Florida?