Studying the history of fault lines in the Tahoe Basin might be a better indicator of seismicity at the lake than recent earthquake activity in Nevada. Last month a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Wells, ...

An area of Texas could be set to receive more earthquakes as seismic activity moves along a newly activated fault zone. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin looked at seven years' worth ...

The June 26 earthquake centered about 3 miles east of Truckee reminded us that we live in a seismically active part of North America. It measured 4.8 to 5.0 and was the third earthquake of similar ...

A 4.4-magnitude earthquake near Highland Park on Monday, Aug. 12, brought back vivid memories for many in the L.A. area. As the shaking rippled through the region on Monday – and after a flurry of ...

This study was mainly conducted by Dr. Peng SHU (State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration), Dr. Xiwei Xu (National Institute of Natural Hazard ...

Oblique aerial view of San Andreas Fault (between white arrows) in southeastern Coachella Valley, Calif. (Michael Rymer/U.S. Geological Survey) A new analysis of thousands of very small earthquakes ...

A new collection of published papers offers the most detailed and comprehensive breakdown yet of how water injected into the Permian Basin during oil and gas operations is changing subsurface ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: GSA’s dynamic online journal, Geosphere, posts articles online regularly. Locations and topics studied include St. Lawrence Island, the Kodiak Islands, and Yakutat Bay, Alaska; ...

The Basin and Range Province of western North America, as seen by Terra’s MODIS imager on Feb. 27, 2020.Credit: NASA. This whole region is known as the Basin and Range. Anyone who has driven across ...