The earthquakes that ripped across southern Turkey and northern Syria in the small hours of February 6th were among the most devastating of this century. Within three days of the disaster, the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Beneath our feet, the ground is moving. Of course not very fast, but, geologists say the North American Plate is moving about an inch a year. Not only are we slowly moving, but ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to California, the fault marks the convergence of the Juan de Fuca and North American ...

After more than 300 years of quiet, the Cascadia Subduction Zone is on the verge of releasing immense energy. This underwater ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The San Andreas fault Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Mendocino Triple ...

Researchers discovered new undersea faults on the Pacific plate, some of which are thousands of meters below the surface of the ocean and hundreds of kilometers long. Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project A ...

Groundbreaking research has provided new insight into the tectonic plate shifts that create some of the Earth's largest earthquakes and tsunamis. Groundbreaking research has provided new insight into ...

Over here in the Midwest, we're much more familiar with tornadoes, floods, freezes and other severe weather incidents. Earthquakes remain an afterthought — but they're not impossible. According to the ...

Last week we took a vacation to the Carrizo Plain National Monument. There are many places in California in close proximity to the San Andreas, but this patch of central California has arguably the ...