An aerial view of the La Cañada Flintridge foothills shows dust and dirt thrown into the air following a magnitude 5.9 earthquake from Oct. 1, 1987. (George Rose / Getty Images) Monday's magnitude 4.4 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- For years Northern Californians have been warned that a big one could hit anytime on the San Andreas fault, but a potentially more dangerous quake and tsunami risk could be ...

A view of New York City after a 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook parts of New York and New Jersey. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images) Friday morning's earthquake, an event more commonly associated ...

The New Madrid fault system does not behave as earthquake hazard models assume and may be in the process of shutting down, a new study shows. A team from Purdue and Northwestern universities analyzed ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — When people think of ...

A 250-million-year-old fault system supplying methane to enormous craters that line the floor of the Arctic Ocean has been discovered. Hundreds of craters, with some over 3,000 feet wide, were ...

A fault system that runs from San Diego to Los Angeles is capable of producing up to magnitude 7.3 earthquakes if the offshore segments rupture and a 7.4 if the southern onshore segment also ruptures, ...

This week’s predawn earthquake in Pico Rivera woke up people around Southern California, but the magnitude 4.4 temblor didn’t cause major damage. But scientists said the quake should serve as a ...

As of Jan. 1, Louisiana has officially moved away from a pure comparative fault system and adopted a modified comparative ...

Safety mechanisms designed to handle rare events can become unreliable under sustained or intense fault conditions.