Seismic symphonies of minor earthquakes may affect grand movements on major faults. Small and distant earthquakes can disrupt the growth of slow-slip events — gradual fault movements that can release ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is quietly loading energy that will one day unleash a megathrust earthquake, and a growing cluster of new measurements suggests that the system is edging closer to failure ...

Paul's Slide, at Post Mile 22, has been active for much of the history of Highway 1 on the Big Sur coast. (Photos by Kevin Schmidt/USGS) Along coastal California, the possibility of earthquakes and ...

The Japanese archipelago is actively undergoing seismic shifts due to interactions between the oceanic plate and the continental plate. At the plate boundaries located directly beneath areas of Japan ...