When designing a new structure or making upgrades to existing ones, architects and engineers prepare for them to be impacted ...

Residents of the US’s West Coast have long feared “The Big One” – the apparently inevitable massive earthquake that will one day hit where the Pacific tectonic plate meets its North American neighbor.

A week after the powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake rocked northern Cebu, thousands of aftershocks continue to jolt affected ...

A mega-earthquake might be triggered by two volatile faults, striking in unison, with one quake nudging the other into ...

Tuesday’s quake is the deadliest the country has experienced since October 2013, when more than 200 people died in the ...

Researchers at the Statewide California Earthquake Center at USC Dornsife warn that powerful, fast-moving earthquakes could hit California and are calling for stronger building codes along with ...

A new study suggests that the 'Big One' earthquake on the West Coast of the United States could actually be two separate ...

The Magnitude 7.4 and 6.8 "doublet earthquakes" off Manay, Davao Oriental, are traced to the deep Philippine Trench, ...

In a span of less 10 hours, Davao Oriental's Manay town was struck by doublet earthquakes at magnitude-7.4 and 6.8. These ...

Phivolcs says the West Valley Fault’s 400-year cycle means the probability of a major quake rises as 2058 nears — but it’s ...

A 6.9-magnitude aftershock jolted quake-hit southern Philippines, triggering a fresh tsunami alert just hours after an ...

These are two very different fault systems, but the sediment record suggests that in the past, at least three San Andreas ...