Below California’s famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state’s collective consciousness.

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29 is now among the 10 largest ever recorded on the planet. With a depth of about 12 miles, the shallow quake was ...

A series of powerful earthquakes has struck across four continents, leaving a trail of destruction and loss of life in its wake. As our hearts and prayers go out to all those nations and people ...

Earthquakes: Nature's most unpredictable and one of her most devastating natural disasters. When high intensity earthquakes strike they can cause thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in damaged ...