Less than an hour before the annual Great California ShakeOut drill was scheduled to begin, an actual earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area, with an epicenter just over a mile east of Berkeley.

Structural engineers at UC San Diego were waiting to see how a tall building, made from recycled steel, would react in a 6.9 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake shake table was ready to go as the ...

Ask a seismologist which place handles earthquakes better, and you will likely get a pause before an answer. Both California ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...