A new method based on optical interferometry, to monitor structural damage to buildings hit by earthquakes in real time, is ...

In a worst-case tsunami, parts of Alameda, Oakland and Berkeley could be flooded up to an 18-foot elevation, California officials said in new study.

The risk of flooding from a major tsunami may be greater than many realized along Monterey County's coastline, California officials said in new study.

The risk of flooding from a major tsunami may be greater than many realized along California’s coastline, state officials ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a pair of earthquakes were reported today near Borrego Springs in San Diego County. At 5:06 a.m. Thursday, a magnitude 3.1 earthquake centered 7.2 miles ...

NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection ...

A magnitude 3.9 earthquake was reported Sunday night in Los Angeles County, centered around 6 miles northwest of Malibu. It happened at 8:17 p.m., the U.S. Geological Survey reported on its website.

This transition from apparent stillness to sudden movement under large forces is seen in earthquakes and landslides. Friction between two sliding interfaces historically has been modeled with a simple ...

This April 2024 image provided by NASA shows the SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) telescope at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colo ...

A 4.1-magnitude earthquake shook Malibu ... a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology, said the quake was part of a series of recent temblors that broke out in the Malibu area.

A pair of earthquakes, including a 3.3 magnitude ... to be what we’re seeing in the sequence over the last year,” Caltech Dr. Lucy Jones said following Sunday’s quake.