SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — A section of the Salton Sea was hit by a 4.6 magnitude earthquake Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred at 10:26 a.m. in a southern part ...

A major earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean this week, with residents on the West Coast of the United States being able to feel it. The United States has been home to several notable earthquakes ...

Mother Nature hasn't been very kind to California this week, that's for sure. Just a few days ago, an earthquake with a ...

The authorities said there were no initial reports of damage from the quake, which struck in the hills west of Malibu.

Something unusual is happening in the oceans. Strange deep-sea creatures are surfacing, and marine life is behaving ...

South Carolina has high seismic activity despite not being on a plate boundary. Scientists still don't know the answer for ...

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each plate, called fault stress. When this stress builds enough to ...

Recent sightings of the rare oarfish in Baja California Sur have reignited ancient myths linking these deep-sea creatures to ...

An earthquake catalog for the area turned up nothing ... Pacific tectonic plate moves over a hotspot in the south Pacific Ocean. Resident reports of the frequent shaking, occurring multiple ...

Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

The second hit in the Pacific Ocean, about 47 miles west of Petrolia ... No damages or injuries have been reported following the two earthquakes. Alamo sits on the Calaveras Fault, which is ...