(CNN) — Tens of millions of Americans live in places with a high earthquake risk, many of them in large metropolitan regions, such as Los Angeles, where major seismic events would also be costly to ...

Earthquakes are some of nature’s most destructive forces, but what if we could better predict where they might strike? A new global stress map, based on more than 100,000 measurements, reveals areas ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new federal earthquake map dials up the shaking hazard just a bit for about one-third of the United States and lowers it for one-tenth of the nation.

Dr Robin Lee and Dr Camilla Penney from the University of Canterbury have been awarded Natural Hazards Commission grants ...

In the photo above, a seismometer is buried about five feet underground. The seismometer is one of the units deployed by the Iowa Geological Survey so it could measure seismicity — or the frequency of ...