You are going about your day. All is calm and quiet until suddenly, the ground beneath your feet begins to shake, and items ...

A newly identified link between two notorious geologic zones suggests a major earthquake at one site could trigger another ...

Accidental landing of a research vessel in the San Andreas zone revealed the repeating patterns tribuldite in its core.

The relationship between the sites means an earthquake in one zone can trigger an earthquake in the other in a phenomenon ...

One of the most dangerous faults in the United States, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, may be able to trigger an earthquake on ...

What if the earth under your feet was quietly accumulating enough energy to release a disaster of rare proportion in North America? Deep in the wilderness of Canada’s Yukon Territory, mounting ...

That was not your imagination. Two earthquakes in less than a week have rattled more than the ground across North Jersey. Whenever an earthquake strikes, many may wonder what caused the earthquake and ...

A future mega-earthquake in the Pacific Northwest could lead to the “Big One” along the San Andreas fault in California—or ...

There isn’t zero probability of earthquakes in the Rochester area, but it is much lower than in regions of the state with ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that megaquakes in the Pacific Northwest might trigger California’s San Andreas Fault. A research ship’s navigational error revealed paired sediment layers showing ...

Sensors and observation instruments being lowered into a borehole off the coast of Japan nearly 1,500 feet below the seafloor during an International Ocean Discovery Program mission in 2016. Sensors ...

Researchers used a new technique called algorithmic fault tolerance (AFT) to cut the time and computational cost of quantum ...