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

The Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center (CRESCENT), a research project focused on the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ), was established in 2023 following a $15 million grant from the National Scie ...

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure ...

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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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The fires have burned more than 10,000 homes and other structures since Tuesday, when they first began ...

An earthquake registering a magnitude of 3.7 shook part of the San Francisco Bay Area and people reported feeling a quick jolt. There were no immediate reports of injuries or major property damage.

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 ...