On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank ...

A recent study confirms that Canada's Tintina fault, stretching across Yukon, is an active seismic hazard, challenging ...

The tsunami generated by the July 29 M 8.8 earthquake near Kamchatka demonstrates why Crescent City has earned the title ...

A 8.8 magnitude quake, followed by multiple aftershocks as strong as magnitude 6, appears to have reawakened long-dormant ...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have helped develop an advanced, real-time tsunami forecasting ...

Chris Hulls, who founded the nonprofit Point Reyes Good Luck Fund to buy, lease, restore and operate key local businesses and ...

Here is a bit of wisdom that is too often lost in our conversations about urban fire: Sometimes, recovery is not rebuilding.

Scientists have captured the first detailed images of the meeting of two tectonic plates off the coast of northern British Columbia, an area they say has the potential to generate the largest ...

When the ground shakes, millions rely on buildings and bridges to hold strong. UC San Diego makes sure they do. Structural ...

What's clear from the study is that while California's next "Big One" may share some characteristics of previously documented ...

Chronic groundwater depletion has caused the land to sink in parts of California's Central Valley. New research shows home ...