Los Angeles could be edging closer to “the big one,” with new research finding earthquake stress has reached its highest ...

Geophysicists at the University of California, Riverside have received a $4.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of earthquake fault systems. Such systems occur ...

The Hayward fault, part of the larger San Andreas fault system, runs 74 miles through the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The fault is overdue for an earthquake that could cause extensive ...

A June study found stress levels along key Southern California faults have reached 1,000-year highs, reinforcing warnings ...

Residents along the West Coast were left shaken when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rattled the region last week, resulting in a tsunami warning and a scary couple of hours for more than 5 million people.

A new study suggests stress levels along Southern California's San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems are at their highest point in 1,000 years, placing the region in a "critically loaded state." ...