I learned about the risk of “soft story” buildings on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1989. On that day, coastal Northern California was struck by the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Over a dozen quakes clustered in or near Tres Pinos, in San Benito County, were recorded with a range of magnitudes between 2 ...

Over a dozen quakes clustered in or near Tres Pinos, in San Benito County, were recorded with a range of magnitudes between 2.2 and 3.9, including one in Aromas, which straddles the Monterey ...

A series of several small earthquakes struck inland of the Central Coast over the course of several hours starting Friday night and continuing into Saturday morning.

The first quake struck at 9:18 p.m. Friday with magnitude of 2.2. It was followed by multiple magnitude-3.3 quakes in the same area, about 7 miles southwest of Tres Pinos, and about 17 miles east of ...

Stanford lies in the San Andreas fault zone, an area of high seismic activity. The San Andreas fault line runs 800 miles (1,287 kilometers) through California and has caused several strong quakes in ...

The various idiosyncrasies of minor earthquakes make them hard to forecast, but the aspects of very large temblors might be ...

From the desert to the sea to all of Southern California, the ground keeps shaking in the Golden State, this time in Barstow.

California has been rocked by at least nine earthquakes since Thursday, raising fears that the "Big One" could be near.

The ground keeps shaking in Southern California as the coastal city of Malibu was struck by two earthquakes on Valentine's ...

The Salton Sea occupies a much smaller footprint of what used to be Lake Cahuilla, which disappeared in the late 1500s. Then, in a wild spring runoff in 1905, the Colorado River blew out a ...