The city sprawls above hundreds of fault lines, including major active ones like the San Andreas, Puente Hills and Santa Monica, but the last major temblor was the 1994 Northridge quake.

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

Or sign-in if you have an account. Pollsters and political campaigners don’t deny it; there’s a generational fault line in the federal election. Boomers are leaning toward the Liberals ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

Below California's famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so ...

Earthquakes are among the deadliest of natural global threats to society, responsible for the majority of disaster-related ...

Their shared goal was to link the two lines together in a circle under central London. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be using maps to tell you the story of each of London’s Tube lines.

Their shared goal was to link the two lines together in a circle under central London. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be using maps to tell you the story of each of London’s Tube lines. The images used ...

The first story in the fault series. The story begins in Rughzenhaide, a kingdom that has long known peace. One night, a mysterious group of raiders attacks the kingdom's castle. The crown ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds variable at 7 to 9 mph (11.3 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 54 °F (12.2 °C). Mostly sunny with a high of 63 °F (17.2 °C). Winds W at 10 to 20 mph (16.1 to ...