Ocean floor map interactive: Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has released a free, scrollable version of the 1977 ...

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“LA on earthquake alert as fault lines hit highest stress levels in history,” claimed a headline from the NY Post on July 5. Granted, the NY Post tends to hyperbole, but similar stories ran in dozens ...

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UNION COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — An excavation company was fined more than $200,000 after the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration (TOSHA) found multiple violations related to a fatal ...

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Geologists are cracking open a mysterious fault found in a Northern California forest that they believe remains active and able to cause earthquakes — shortly after a powerful NorCal quake. The ...

Amid the towering redwoods of rural Humboldt County, geologists this month cracked open an 100-foot-long trench to search for the signs of ancient earthquakes. Jason Patton, a geologist for California ...

I took a very special field trip this week. Colleagues of mine received funding from the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program to study a suspicious bump in the ground near Shively in Southern ...

The fault lines have reached “unprecedented levels” of stress, according to the study, which was recently published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. The study suggests that stress ...

Stress levels beneath Southern California’s two most dangerous fault systems have climbed to their highest in at least 1,000 years, prompting fresh concerns that the long-feared “Big One” may be ...

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. — A man is back above ground after being trapped in a trench for nearly a day. On Saturday night, a passerby heard a voice calling for help and led rescuers to a man trapped at the ...