A 3.0 magnitude earthquake struck between Ridgecrest and California City Thursday afternoon, according to the USGS.The tremor was reported around 3:55 p.m., nor

Since their first implementation in Mexico and Japan, earthquake early-warning (EEW) systems have provided critical advance notice of imminent earthquakes to countless people. Many seismic countries,

A 4.3-magnitude earthquake jolted a lake shoreline Friday, July 11, in Southern California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Then dozens of smaller quakes followed. The 6.5-mile-deep quake hit more than 7 miles from Calipatria at 2:55 a.m., according to USGS.

The goal is to see whether it’s safe to build taller buildings out of cold-formed steel, a strong, lightweight recycled material that could make construction faster and less expensive.

Google’s Android Earthquake Alerts program is a globe-spanning earthquake early-warning system that uses billions of phone sensors to detect seismic shaking and alert those at risk

More than 3 million people were notified by phone early Tuesday of a 6.4 magnitude earthquake that shook Northern California.. Depending on their distance from the quake’s epicenter — which ...

An early morning 3.6-magnitude earthquake woke parts of Northern California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The approximately 13-mile deep quake hit about 3 miles northwest from Redding just before 4 a.m. on Friday, June 27, according to the USGS.

An earthquake and dozens of aftershocks rattled Southern Californians starting on Tuesday night and continuing into Wednesday morning. Could a bigger one be on the way? As a general rule, the risk ...

Southern California’s last magnitude 7.9 earthquake occurred in 1857, when the San Andreas ruptured between Monterey and Los Angeles counties.

Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years