A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major ...

Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course of days or weeks rather than minutes – and scientists have now recorded some ...

On a quiet stretch of central California ranchland, scientists have spent decades trying to turn one of Earth’s most ...

Earthquakes can be deadly and disastrous. But what we feel may constitute a tiny sliver of an earthquake’s destructive energy, according to a new experiment. In a recent AGU Advances paper, ...

Earthquakes often bring to mind images of destruction, of the Earth breaking open and altering landscapes. But after an earthquake, the area around it undergoes a period of post-seismic deformation, ...

Along a quiet stretch of central California, the tiny town of Parkfield sits atop one of the most closely watched pieces of ...