San Andreas Fault stretches 1,200 km across California, housing quakes up to M 8.3. Experts warn of southern segment’s “Big ...

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

The U.S. Geological Survey, which tracks faults and measures earthquakes, has calculated that there's a 72% chance of a magnitude 6.7 earthquake in the San Francisco Bay region by 2043.

Graphic courtesy the Alaska Earthquake Center Welcome to your weekly seismic update from across the state, brought to you by the Alaska Earthquake Center, where we monitor ground shaking 24-7. Over ...

But it does seem that earthquakes are over in this part of the area because, according to the Professor of Seismology, the scale of the fault line might not produce an earthquake of more than 6.0 ...

Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern Greece, authorities said on Friday. Mount Athos is one of the most ...

A series of earthquakes has damaged centuries-old monasteries in Mount Athos, Greece, including severe cracks in the Monastery of Xenophon. The Greek Culture Ministry plans to accelerate restoration ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 struck the peninsula of Mount Athos on June 7, at 15:46. The strongest in a series of tremors, its epicenter was located in the sea near the coastal ...

One reason California is an earthquake outlier is that the San Andreas Fault and the faults around it are fast-slipping faults, meaning that they move quickly and generate earthquakes regularly.