Amid the towering redwoods of rural Humboldt County, geologists this month cracked open an 100-foot-long trench to search for the signs of ancient earthquakes. Jason Patton, a geologist for California ...
California is tense, or at least its fault lines are. The southern part of the state is at risk of experiencing a devastating earthquake as stress levels along both the San Andreas and San Jacinto ...
Cajon Pass may allow an earthquake to occur along two fault lines simultaneously. | Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images California is tense, or at least its fault lines are. The ...
Venezuela and its capital, Caracas, were rocked by two massive earthquake pulses on June 24, 2026, just seconds apart. The shaking from the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 events caused buildings to collapse in ...
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Back-to-back earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday evening, ...
NEW MADRID, Mo. — After a series of recent National Guard drills in downtown St. Louis, countless amateur seismologists seemingly appeared out of nowhere overnight. Millions of people have since ...
One major earthquake striking Caracas, where older buildings are vulnerable to strong shaking, could have caused widespread damage. A pair of them less than a minute apart was uniquely catastrophic, ...