PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- 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 ...

When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Myanmar on March 28, 2025, it wasn’t just another powerful tremor—it was a geological curveball. The quake ripped open more than 500 kilometers (317 miles) of the ...

Few geological features define a place quite like the San Andreas Fault defines California. It runs through the state like a ...

A Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is coming for the Pacific Northwest, and when it hits, scientists now believe, it could cause the San Andreas fault in California to go off. “It would be a very ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - The United States' most volatile fault line is overdue for an earthquake, and if one occurs, it could be catastrophic for one of California's most populated regions. The San ...

The Carrizo Plain in eastern San Luis Obispo County contains the most strikingly graphic portion of the San Andreas Fault. Sediment cores recovered from the Pacific seafloor suggest that megathrust ...

Faults like San Andreas don't necessarily repeat past behavior, which means the next big earthquake in California has the potential to be larger than any seen before, a new study suggests. The fresh ...

They are two of the West Coast’s most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: The San Andreas fault in California and the Cascadia subduction zone offshore of California’s North Coast, Oregon, ...