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

Los Angeles could see a major earthquake ...

Thirty years ago, seismologists worked with far less data, far slower computers, and a fundamentally simpler picture of how ...

What does that mean for earthquake risk?

While analyzing strong-motion data close to fault lines, a group of researchers at Kyoto University noticed something unexpected: a negative phase in the waveforms, a pattern that did not conform to ...

Earthquake researchers believed for decades that rock friction within fault lines follows a simple relationship with temperature. However, a new study published by the Proceedings of the National ...

Hurricanes are still the biggest threat to Florida, but earthquakes do occur. Could a quake like the one that rocked ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - The United States' most volatile fault line is overdue for an earthquake, and if one occurs, it could be catastrophic for one of California's most populated regions. The San ...

The fault lines have reached “unprecedented levels,” according to the study.

This post was updated July 5 at 11:07 p.m. High stress levels on fault lines under Los Angeles could increase risk of an ...

Stress accumulating in the southern San Andreas fault. (Burkhard et. al., J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 2026) It's called California's Big One for a reason. For more than a century, tectonic pressure ...