A chilling warning has rippled through Japan, a nation all too familiar with the earth’s raw power. The Japanese government ...

Scientists detected a slow-motion earthquake off Japan, offering rare insight into hidden faults and tsunami risks beneath ...

Impact: The 1933 earthquake was Southern California’s deadliest in the modern record, leaving nearly 120 dead and causing $40 ...

The devastating earthquake at Bam, Iran, in 2003 was caused by the rupture of a rare, hidden fault that is invisible at the surface, experts say. This fault runs directly under the city of Bam and, ...

Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones said the Puente Hills Blind Thrust system was responsible for the quake. The same fault system caused the Whittier Narrows earthquake, a 5.9 temblor that occurred at 7: ...

The USGS has estimated that a major magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the San Andreas fault could kill about 1,800 people, while a 7.5 magnitude quake on the Puente Hills thrust fault could kill as many ...

The 4.4 magnitude earthquake that jolted the Los Angeles area this week hit in the area of a fault system that could pose an even greater threat to parts of the city than the notorious San Andreas ...

"If you uplift the downstream part of the L.A. River by 5 feet in one of these Compton blind thrust earthquakes, well, the river is going to flow backward," Dolan said.

The earthquake’s peak ground acceleration of 1.82 g, the highest ever instrumentally recorded in an urban area in North America. The peak ground velocity at the Rinaldi Receiving Station was 183 cm/s ...

In the earlier quake in Whittier in 1987 he said, “we weren’t ready for that stuff.” But when the Northridge earthquake hit, urban search and rescue task force efforts played a major role.