Calling it an exercise in imagination, seismologist Carl Tape stopped at the site of Dome City and the former townsite of ...

School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...

To see how a magnitude-9.0 earthquake would rattle the Pacific Northwest, researchers ran 50 virtual simulations on a ...

In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one' ...

That earthquake struck in the early morning hours multiple miles west of Ferndale on Dec. 20, 2022, USA TODAY reported. It indirectly caused two deaths and damaged homes and roads in Humboldt County.

They've learned from big quakes in China, Chile, Japan and New Zealand, as well as the Indian Ocean quake. Sponsor Message The first new idea is about aftershocks that follow a big earthquake.

For U.S. earthquake scientists, Japan's 'megaquake' warning renewed worries about when and how to warn the public if they find clues that the 'big one' might be coming for the West COast.

Though what is considered a big earthquake varies, significant damage to buildings starts at 6.1 to 6.9 magnitude earthquakes, according to Michigan Tech University's earthquake magnitude scale.

When the big one hits the Pacific Northwest, you can expect to feel it for much longer. Doctor Chris Goldfinger with Oregon State University has studied earthquakes in our area for more than a decade.

The last significant damaging earthquake in the Bay Area was the 6.0 South Napa Quake on Aug. 24, 2014, which killed 1 person, injured 300 and caused $1 billion in damage in Napa and Vallejo.

The magnitude 4.4 earthquake that rattled Los Angeles on Monday was centered within one of the region’s most potentially destructive fault systems, one capable of producing a magnitude 7.5 ...

The Big One — a magnitude 6.75 earthquake with appalling destructive power to crumble homes, schools and vital infrastructure across the valley — could carry a short-term economic toll of at ...