We're tracking damage assessments from the Eaton and Palisades fires, which destroyed 12,000 structures in Altadena and Pacific Palisades.

The 2.8 magnitude earthquake occurred at about 5:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday, with shaking felt across Virginia and beyond.

We’d all assumed the Big One would be an earthquake,” writes Joy Press—“never imagined that Mother Nature might have a different apocalypse scripted for this city.” ...

A strong earthquake struck southwestern Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey said, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami ...

No. Earthquakes cannot be predicted on any sort of scale, regardless of historical context. Community notes added to the ...

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Scientists at ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology ... or where plate edges scrape alongside each other.

Earthquakes can happen anywhere in the world. However, the frequency of earthquakes in crustal faults and folds or weaknesses is higher than anywhere else. In this context, I can recall a conversation ...

In all three of those areas, faults in the days leading up to the fires were negligible, with only a few occurring. Investigators with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection ...

As faults are often under considerable strain, even a small change in stress can cause the rapid movement of rock that leads to an earthquake. For the new study, the researchers used a ...

A series of deadly wildfires in Southern California were still burning on Friday, killing at least 10 people and destroying communities, and forcing thousands of evacuations across the region.