Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each plate, called fault stress. When this stress builds enough to ...

South Carolina has high seismic activity despite not being on a plate boundary. Scientists still don't know the answer for ...

Support from the National Science Foundation helps civil engineers like Ben Schafer improve building codes and develop more ...

Earthquakes within this range occur with relative frequency in Oregon and Washington. Both of these states are located on or near many active fault zones, including the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ).

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each ...

They may naturally follow fault lines that have carved ... both to understand earthquake lights and to identify shallow active faults in eastern North America.' ...

He said: "Washington has, second only to California, the greatest risk from earthquakes in the country," during an interview with KIRO7. Washington is home to dozens of active faults and fault ...

The shakes have left the 'Big One' on many Greater Victorian minds – a megaquake on the boundary between the Juan de Fuca and ...

The temblor followed three earlier small earthquakes — a magnitude 2.7 that struck near the Hayward fault at 5:03 a.m., followed by a magnitude 3.3 at 11:52 a.m., then a 3.2 at 11:54 a.m. The ...