New research reveals California and the Pacific Northwest's fault lines may synchronize, posing risks of simultaneous ...

As the death toll from Venezuela's devastating twin earthquakes continue to rise, the disaster has once again highlighted the immense human cost of major seismic disasters. Over 3,300 people have been ...

Cascadia’s rupture may jolt the San Andreas, creating the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

The San Andreas Fault is not a single, continuous fault, but rather is actually a fault zone made up of many segments. Movement may occur along any of the many fault segments along the zone at any ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents and emergency personnel dig through the debris of a collapsed building after an earthquake, in Cali, Colombia August 10, ...

The area's older rental buildings, many of which were built before current seismic bylaws were put into place, and the ...

Rare back-to-back deadly earthquakes hit Venezuela on Wednesday, killing and injuring hundreds. Here are some of the deadliest earthquakes in South and Central America in the past century. September ...