This is the fourth eartquake to hit California with others felt across the region including shaking in San Bernardino, ...

Two earthquakes rocked California today, one after another, and though they were small, they definitely rattled nerves and ...

California has been rocked by at least nine earthquakes since Thursday, raising fears that the "Big One" could be near.

I learned about the risk of “soft story” buildings on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1989. On that day, coastal Northern California was struck by the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake.

The various idiosyncrasies of minor earthquakes make them hard to forecast, but the aspects of very large temblors might be ...

A series of several small earthquakes struck inland of the Central Coast over the course of several hours starting Friday night and continuing into Saturday morning.

Stanford lies in the San Andreas fault zone, an area of high seismic activity. The San Andreas fault line runs 800 miles (1,287 kilometers) through California and has caused several strong quakes in ...

Seismologists are monitoring California's fault lines for the 'Big One,' a major earthquake that could cause widespread ...

Although the 1964 Alaskan earthquake, which had a magnitude of 9.2 was the biggest quake in US history, the death toll was relatively low (around 131 people). The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was ...

A series of small earthquakes shook the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Some described the trio of earthquakes in San Bernardino on Monday as quick jolts that rattled nerves and frightened pets in the Victor Valley. A magnitude 3.5 earthquake occurred at about 9:44 a.m.

The epicenter for all the quakes was about one mile east of Hayward, in San Francisco’s East Bay, according to the U.S. Geological Survey ...