Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

More than 1.1 billion years ago, an immense geological fault called the Midcontinent Rift began to form beneath what is now ...

The distribution network comprising of complex of primary and secondary distribution lines is vulnerable to various short-circuit (SC) faults caused by lightning strikes, storms, growing vegetation, ...

No local governments have reported damage from the earthquake. USGS Research Geophysicist William Yeck said the quake happened in the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone, which is made up of several small, ...

Is 'the big one' coming to Knoxville? East Tennessee earthquake shows our fault lines. Experts say a far bigger one is possible ...

while northwest Michigan has restrictions in effect, according to a map from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources' Burn Permits Management System, as of May 7. Here's what to know.

One of the most dangerous fault lines that threatens the United States ... miles from Northern California to British Columbia. Most earthquakes that strike this area go unnoticed because it ...

Editor's Note: The U.S. Geological Survey has adjusted the intensity of this earthquake to magnitude 5.4. It was rated at magnitude 5.3 at the time of publication, and this article has been edited ...