There are fears that sooner or later, the entire Pacific coast of northern California, Oregon and Washington is due to suffer ...

We finally know how a fault that gave rise to Denali, North America's highest mountain ... creating a magnitude 7.9 earthquake that knocked houseboats off their moorings more than 1,500 miles ...

A swarm of earthquakes hit a massive 150-foot-long fault line in the Midwest that scientists fear is overdue for a mega-quake. This little-known New Madrid sits in America's Heartland, passing ...

Climate change may influence seismic activity as melting glaciers reduce pressure on quake-prone faults Southern Colorado’s ...

These plates, called tectonic plates, can push against each other. Earthquakes are most common along fault lines, which are fractures that allow the plates to move. Earthquakes occur when two ...

America has endured even stronger quakes throughout its history. The largest earthquake ever to hit the continental US struck the Cascadia Subduction Zone—a fault line off the Pacific coast of ...

All four West coastal states sit on significant offshore or nearshore earthquake fault lines, each of which could ... along the eastern coast of North America in 1755 may have been linked to ...

We finally know how a fault that gave rise to Denali, North America's highest mountain ... On Nov. 3, 2002, the fault jolted, creating a magnitude 7.9 earthquake that knocked houseboats off their ...

The East and Gulf coasts aren’t generally at risk for earthquake-caused tsunamis because they do not have major fault lines that run ... eastern coast of North America in 1755 may have been ...