A new study shines a light on a system of earthquake faults in the San Francisco Bay Area that most residents don’t even know exists. The Foothill Thrust Belt faults are deep under Silicon Valley, and ...

It is a common trope in disaster movies: an earthquake strikes, causing the ground to rip open and swallow people and cars whole. The gaping earth might make for cinematic drama, but earthquake ...

Countless seismic faults just as dangerous as the one that triggered Monday's San Simeon earthquake are suspected to be lurking throughout the Bay Area. Scientists have known about some of these ...

Three hundred seventeen years ago, the last really Big One let loose in our area. A great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone ruptured a 600 to 700 mile-long fault from Humboldt County to ...

As PG&E’s aging Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is up for a 20-year federal license renewal, one scientist cites new GPS data to suggest there’s a looming seismic threat from an active thrust fault ...

Engineers and scientists experimentally observe surface twisting in thrust faults that can momentarily rip open the earth's surface. It is a common trope in disaster movies: an earthquake strikes, ...