If you buy into stereotypes and myths, the climate in Southern California is splendid and the people are laid back. Lies. The ...

This week was the USGS Northern California Earthquake Hazards Workshop (NCEHW). I joined other earthquake hazards ...

Tsunami warning lifted for Bay Area coast after magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits California coast “I immediately ... not unheard of,” Hough said. The largest reported earthquake in the area ...

A re-examination of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake disproved earlier claims of a record-breaking deep aftershock in the ...

One of the largest earthquakes ever reported in ... felt up to 600 miles from where it began. A 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Napa, California, in 2014 was only felt around 250 miles from its ...

The largest recorded earthquake in Maine occurred in 1904 ... fault lines and stresses within the North American plate. Unlike California, where quakes are caused by active plate boundaries ...

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck near York Harbor, Maine, early Monday, sending tremors as far south as Boston and as far ...

In Southern California, the infamous San ... In the winter of 1811-12, a series of earthquakes happened in the fault zone, the largest of which seismologists believe was between 7.2-8.2 on the ...

The biggest quakes ... Fault stretches through California. Compared to the western U.S., the hard, brittle rocks on the East Coast are better at spreading earthquake energy across long distances.