New research led by the University of Victoria (UVic) has illuminated a significant and previously unrecognized source of ...

A fault line that could unleash a major earthquake is not where scientists thought it was. New research found the Concord Fault is about a quarter mile west of where it was originally mapped.

While California and Alaska dominate conversations about earthquakes in the U.S., there's another seismic threat that could ...

A hydrologist explains why the region is known as Flash Flood Alley and how its geography and geology can lead to heavy ...

Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course ...

A rare slow-motion earthquake discovered off Japan’s coast sheds light on tectonic behavior and may improve tsunami ...

Intense rainstorms are becoming more frequent in most of the U.S. — though experts say where they occur and whether they ...

While earthquakes do occur on occasion in Florida, what you felt last night wasn't an earthquake, at least according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

El Pasoans might've felt some shaking from an earthquake. A 5.0 magnitude earthquake shook western Texas late Friday, Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake happened around ...

El Pasoans might've felt some shaking from an earthquake. A 5.0 magnitude earthquake shook western Texas late Friday, Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...