When the ground under Seattle finally gives way, the disaster will not unfold as a single cinematic moment but as a chain reaction that reshapes the city’s geography, infrastructure and daily life.

Two earthquakes shook Mona Epstein awake in the middle of the night, long before she crawled out of bed on the morning of Dec. 8. But it was the rocking from the magnitude 3.6 quake just after 9 a.m.

A series of strong quakes abroad and smaller ones at home has Californians increasingly asking the same question: Is the “Big One” looming? Two earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater struck within ...

The U.S. Geological Survey was still trying to unravel how an alert was sent Thursday morning for a nonexistent 5.9 earthquake outside Dayton, Nevada. A quake of that size wouldn't be implausible.

Hundreds of earthquakes have shaken the same region in California in just one month, leaving residents worried about whether ...

For more than a month, the Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes, rattling windows and raising fears across California.

The most recent, a 1.2-magnitude tremor, hit about 2 ½ miles northeast of San Ramon at 4:05 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23. Getty Images/iStockphoto A swarm of small earthquakes has been rattling a Bay Area ...

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake sent tremors through homes across northwest England late on Wednesday night, the British Geological Survey has confirmed. Striking shortly after 11.23pm, the tremor was felt ...