Most people think about fault lines in terms of falling buildings and emergency sirens. They picture dramatic news footage, ...

Most people only think about earthquakes after one happens. The news cycle kicks in, the footage rolls, and for a few days ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Tintina fault is thought to have been inactive for more than 40 million years, but new research suggests that earthquakes occurred in the zone ...

South Carolina is bisected by a number of fault lines that cause those temblors. Those formations are the lingering scars of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers hoping to unravel the dance of earthquake movement in North America’s West Coast discovered a disturbing fact: Two of the world’s largest ...

It was a groundbreaking discovery. Scientists have found previously concealed fault lines along California’s north coast, sparking concerns that we could be drastically underestimating the earthquake ...

There's a sleeping fault line that runs along the border between Canada and Alaska. The line has been dormant for millions of years as best scientists can tell. But new research suggests it could be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Map showing the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas Fault. (USGS/Illustration by SFGATE) Two of the West Coast's most ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) - A geological fault line has been revealed in southwest Kalamazoo County following a small earthquake in the area over the weekend. Kazuya Fujita, a geosciences professor at ...