Scientists have discovered evidence that California is actually peeling apart below the surface, as dense rocks under the Sierra Nevada mountain is detaching and sinking deeper into the mantle.

To better understand when a big earthquake is coming, there are earthquake monitoring stations across the state in remote ...

Four days later, a magnitude-5.5 quake in a remote Nevada desert was widely ... seismologists say. Northern California is accustomed to frequent earthquakes, particularly in areas like Cobb ...

Until Jan. 7, when fires began to destroy thousands of buildings and claim at least 28 lives, my biggest fear about living in California was earthquakes, thanks to a 2017 trip to the San Andreas ...

The largest in its recorded history was a 7.3-magnitude in 1954. Between Dec. 5 and Jan. 3, UNR’s Nevada Seismological Laboratory recorded 560 earthquakes After Parker Butte, geologists and officials ...

While earthquakes have caused disasters since early California, death and building destruction from wildfires is a modern phenomenon. The possibility that thousands of schoolchildren could be ...