This gradual accumulation and release of stress and strain is now referred to as the "elastic rebound theory" of earthquakes. Most earthquakes are the result of the sudden elastic rebound of ...

A 2.9 magnitude earthquake near Dacono provided a jarring wakeup for some Coloradans, with the shaking reported some 20 miles away into the Denver area. The U.S. Geological Survey said the temblor had ...

About 240 miles long, Utah's Wasatch Fault stretches along the western edge of the Wasatch Mountains from southern Idaho to central Utah, running through Salt Lake City and the state's other ...

A new study in Civil Engineering Sciences reports a magnitude-based incremental dynamic analysis method, or MIDA, for evaluating structures exposed to near-fault earthquakes. Using a cable-stayed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That was not your imagination. Two earthquakes in less than a week have rattled more than the ground across North Jersey. Whenever ...

First things first — everything is normal. Mount Rainier is not about to erupt. Today, at least. (The future is another story.) Now that that’s out of the way, the Cascades Volcano Observatory with ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Dozens of small earthquakes have shaken the San Francisco Bay Area over the last month, rattling nerves and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 2.9 magnitude earthquake near Dacono provided a jarring wakeup for some Coloradans, with the shaking reported some 20 miles away ...

From left, Utah State University geoscientists Geosciences Srisharan Shreedharan and Lindsey Broderick collect rock samples from the Wasatch Fault near Brigham City, Utah, USA. LOGAN, UTAH, USA -- ...