When an earthquake rupturing along a fault hits a barrier, it creates a seismic signature called the “stopping phase.” ...

A new study uncovers a hidden pattern of ground motions at the end of big earthquakes that could help scientists and planners ...

The most recent, a 1.2-magnitude tremor, hit about 2 ½ miles northeast of San Ramon at 4:05 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23. Getty Images/iStockphoto A swarm of small earthquakes has been rattling a Bay Area ...

A simple explanation of how tectonic plate movement leads to earthquakes, and how scientists study and measure these natural events.

For more than a month, the Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes — the latest in a series of seismic swarms that have rattled windows and raised fears across ...

A swarm of almost a half-dozen earthquakes reaching up to magnitude 3.0 rattled San Ramon in California near San Francisco, the U.S. Geological Survey reports. The other quakes in Monday night’s swarm ...

A new scientific study published in “Seismological Research Letters,” a journal of the Seismological Society of America, offers important new insight into the 2023 Al Haouz earthquake, one of the most ...

SUMMERVILLE — The earth beneath Summerville has been unsettled in recent days. Since Feb. 3, three small-scale temblors have rattled the area around Flowertown. None of those events have cracked a ...