A magnitude-5.5 earthquake Monday afternoon rattled parts of Nevada and California. The earthquake at 3:08 p.m. was centered near the central Nevada town of Yerington, about 60 miles southeast of ...

Barton Memorial Hospital in South Lake Tahoe is planning to relocate due to its aging infrastructure and California's ...

To better understand when a big earthquake is coming, there are earthquake monitoring stations across the state in remote locations.

Scientists have discovered evidence that California is actually peeling apart below the surface, as dense rocks under the ...

New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...

The magnitude-3.7 earthquake’s epicenter was recorded near Concord, California, but a U.S. Geological Survey report indicates light shaking was felt all throughout the Bay Area. The ...

Seismologist posits that the Summerville 'ghost light' is linked to “earthquake lights”—a rare and poorly understood ...

California was hit by an earthquake Friday as the state battled deadly wildfires earlier this week. A 3.7 magnitude quake was detected near the San Francisco Bay area around 7:02am PT.

In Southern California, the infamous San Andreas Fault has a major earthquake every 150-200 years. It has been 168 years since the last one in 1857. Today over 10 million people live in Los ...

This week was the USGS Northern California Earthquake Hazards Workshop (NCEHW). I joined other earthquake hazards ...

We also monitor eastern California and the Sierra Nevada,” explained Dr. Christie Rowe, Director of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory, the authority on earthquakes in Nevada. Dr. Rowe took ...