The fault has moved the curbs as much as a handspan, around 18 centimeters, since the time they were installed, up to 60 ...

San Francisco has assigned a seismic hazard score to hundreds of city-owned buildings. Some key ones, including a jury duty ...

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake hit Northern California Monday evening near Los Banos, about 30 miles from San Jose. No damage ...

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In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast detectors to gauge tsunami risks. But the U.S. lags in monitoring the massive Ca ...

California frequently suffers some of the costliest disasters in the country. Now state officials fear they’ll be left to ...

Deadly floods like those in Texas are rare in California, but climate change-fueled storms could make them more likely, ...