For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer questions about the Balcones Escarpment and the Balcones Fault ...

The Utah Geological Survey (UGS) has completed a project forming new high-resolution maps of active faults throughout central ...

Scientists uncover hidden faults beneath Northern California’s Mendocino triple junction. The discovery reshapes ...

Northern California’s coast keeps you on alert, even on quiet days. Offshore, three tectonic plates meet near Humboldt County ...

A light, 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck in Montana on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The ...

A light, 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

Did you feel it? An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.4 struck near San Ramon on Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

A new report shows that there are even more fault lines through central Utah than previously thought, and the report's author ...

Floods? Let’s wait until the next one. Hill towns disappear? Never mind, let the construction continue. Drought? What are water tankers for? In the face of such ...

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 4.9 earthquake about 12 miles northeast of Indio that caused serious shaking ...