many Bay Area residents say they felt the big jolt of a 3.9 earthquake on the Calaveras fault in the East Bay. It struck at 7 ...

Valmy sits within a region of active fault lines, including the ... the Sierra Nevada is pulled to the north because it is caught up in the Pacific-North America plate motion,' the site explains.

Millions of people living on the west coast of North America fear that ... Scientists know why an earthquake occurs - sudden movements along fault lines - but predicting such an event is something ...

In early December 1990, the town of New Madrid found itself at the center of international attention, not because of an ...

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar caused widespread shaking and likely considerable damage because of a lack of buildings ...