SONOMA COUNTY, CA - Sunday afternoon, a preliminary 2.0 magnitude quake was recorded close to The Geysers, according to the U ...

A major earthquake hasn't struck any of California's biggest cities in more than three decades, but the "Big One" is a matter ...

A 3.1-magnitude earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The ...

San Andreas, Cascadia faults could combine to produce back-to-back earthquake disasters, new research suggests – Nation and ...

Eastern California is the perhaps the best place in the country to learn geology. The deserts beyond the Sierra Nevada host glacial features, volcanoes and rivers. Beautiful stratigraphic layers are ...

The Great California Shakeout is coming. The event is an annual earthquake drill, aimed at increasing public awareness about ...

During 35 years of teaching geology at UCSB, Art Sylvester led more than 300 field trips, mostly across Southern California, providing the professor repeat lessons on the region’s many ridges, canyons ...

Structural integrity is an important part of resilience, but not the only one. Buildings can resist ground shaking with no ...

Assembling California by John McPhee, Farrar ,Straus and Giroux, $21, 304pp. This is the fourth and last of John McPhee’s books on American geology, named collectively “Annals of the Former World.” ...

California’s state geologist has concluded that an active earthquake fault is underneath a massive proposed skyscraper project in Hollywood, setting the stage for a huge battle at City Hall over ...