Scientists are warning that a 1,000-foot-tall “mega tsunami” could potentially wipe a large chunk of America off the map – if ...

where the Hayward Fault branches off from the Calaveras Fault. The white lines indicate faults recognized by the USGS. The red line is the newly discovered surface trace connecting the southern ...

Last week, there were reports that a series of small earthquakes were recorded in California that generated a few news headlines. The state is notorious for earthquake activity. It’s estimated that ...

At 4.1 magnitude near Greenback, the May 10 quake was large for our area. Experts look back on the last earthquakes to ...

Scientists are warning that a 300-metre-tall “mega tsunami” could potentially wipe a large chunk of America off the map – if ...

Some world maps don't bother to show Tuvalu ... their lives pretty much like Californians living on the San Andreas fault: with concern but without panic. They're building homes, showing off ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

There were 301 Tennessee earthquakes in 2018 but just 11 in 1994. The ground shakes when there is a sudden slip on a fault. The sudden slip releases energy in waves that travel through the earth ...