PASADENA, Calif. -- A powerful earthquake in Myanmar earlier this year is leading scientists to rethink how we predict future earthquakes. A new study from CalTech sheds light on the behavior of the ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- Dr. Lucy Jones has been the face of earthquake science in Southern California for decades. As the Ridgecrest earthquakes have rattled the Southland this week, Jones has made ...

Naypyidaw: A powerful earthquake that struck Myanmar earlier this year is helping scientists better understand how dangerous faults like California's San Andreas might behave in the future. On March ...

A new report studied a massive earthquake that ruptured in the southeast Asian country of Myanmar on March 28 — on a fault known for being eerily similar to California’s notorious San Andreas fault.

Deep beneath our feet, a mysterious boundary separates Earth's brittle crust from its flowing mantle. This boundary, known as the Mohorovičić discontinuity or Moho, has long intrigued scientists. But ...

It is predicted to be one of the most devastating earthquakes in history. And now scientists have issued a chilling warning about 'The Big One' – a mega–earthquake set to rock California's notorious ...

Lucy Jones is often the first person you see on TV after an earthquake, explaining why your bookshelf just waltzed across the living room. The seismologist and CalTech professor is the founder of the ...

George W. Housner, who pioneered the modern field of earthquake engineering, developing the most complete mathematical system to analyze the effects of ground-shaking on structures, died Nov. 10 at a ...