Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 2.9 magnitude earthquake near Dacono provided a jarring wakeup for some Coloradans, with the shaking reported some 20 miles away ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tracy Turner, owner of the Wynola Junction, looks over pictures that fell from shelves when an earthquake hit Monday in Julian.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency ( BMKG) reported a magnitude 5.5 tectonic ...

For decades, scientists believed that Turkey's Tuz Gölü Fault moved sideways at a rate of 4.7 millimeters per year. Satellites orbiting Earth tracked this sideways sliding motion, and geologists built ...

Shrinking lakes across the Tibetan Plateau may be doing more than altering the region’s hydrology. New research suggests that the slow disappearance of massive water bodies over tens of thousands of ...

Drop. Cover. Hold on. That’s the three-part jingle every Californian learns to stay safe in earthquake country. Scientists forecast a more than 99% chance that earthquakes of 6.7 magnitude or larger ...

The largest earthquakes in Tibet, with magnitudes of 8.0 or similar, occur along strike-slip faults. Normal-faulting earthquakes are smaller in magnitude; in 2008, five normal-faulting earthquakes ...

Earthquakes are unsettling, but a swarm of earthquakes can be downright scary, and some San Francisco residents are worried ...

Tracy Turner, owner of the Wynola Junction, looks over pictures that fell from shelves when an earthquake hit Monday in Julian. (Denis Poroy / Associated Press) Below California's famed beaches, ...