On Friday, the Grapevine earthquake struck an area near Bakersfield, and about a year after a magnitude 5.2 quake struck near the same area.

What's clear from the study is that while California's next "Big One" may share some characteristics of previously documented ...

Ceramic artifacts and a bread oven made from repurposed materials show how survivors of the Mount Vesuvius eruption returned ...

Studying slow tremors has helped researchers home in on the youngest part of the Chile Triple Junction’s gap between ...

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia's sparsely populated Far East in late July, triggering tsunami ...

Some residents who couldn't afford to resettle elsewhere returned to the city, where they occupied the upper floors of ...