Most people picture earthquakes as a West Coast problem. California shakes regularly, the news covers it, and residents there ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Maps released Thursday of earthquake-prone areas are intended to ensure new construction in San Diego does not take place atop earthquake faults that may break the surface. Developed ...

Following the release of two maps last week by the California Department of Conservation, San Diego is notifying residents and property owners of proposed changes to earthquake fault zones within city ...

When and where will the next damaging earthquake hit California? According to the USGS, the real threat comes from smaller (about magnitude 7) earthquakes occurring on the Hayward fault, the Peninsula ...

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LOS ANGELES — When an earthquake strikes, the instinct of many Californians is to ask: Which fault ruptured — the Newport-Inglewood, the Hayward, the mighty San Andreas? But scientists are ...

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

PASADENA, Calif. - A “dominoes-like” series of ruptures occurring during the Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence has helped geophysicists from Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory gain valuable ...

A small magnitude-2.7 earthquake struck Berkeley, Calif., Tuesday morning, with an epicenter under the edge of UC Berkeley campus. A map from the United States Geological Survey shows the quake hit ...