A major Hayward fault quake could shake some Bay Area communities harder than expected because of the ground beneath them, new federal simulations show.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tracy Turner, owner of the Wynola Junction, looks over pictures that fell from shelves when an earthquake hit Monday in Julian. (Denis Poroy / Associated Press) Below California's famed ...

Unlike the San Andreas Fault — one of the most heavily studied faults in the world — scientists know comparatively little about the Rose Canyon Fault.

When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Myanmar on March 28, 2025, it wasn’t just another powerful tremor—it was a geological curveball. The quake ripped open more than 500 kilometers (317 miles) of the Sagaing Fault, making it the longest continental ...

Residents across Hawaiʻi Island felt the ground shake at 5:58 p.m. HST on June 2, 2026, when a magnitude-4.6 earthquake struck roughly 4 miles west-northwest of Kahaluu-Keauhou at a depth of 34 km (21 mi).

A study in Türkiye confirms that earthquakes release CO2 from cracked rock, and the escaping gas may even sustain the fault rupture.

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement themselves back together after a seismic movement, adding to ...

A fault line running alongside the Hunua Ranges in South Auckland is now identified as active and has the potential to cause a major earthquake with serious consequences, University of Auckland researchers say. The Mangatangi Fault poses the risk of a ...