Beneath our feet, the Earth is in a constant, slow negotiation with itself. Tectonic plates grind, lock, flex, and ...

Hurricanes are still the biggest threat to Florida, but earthquakes do occur. Could a quake like the one that rocked ...

This is my first column as a Forbes contributor, where my aim is write about the world outside America for a largely American audience. In this note I would like to give readers a sense of where I am ...

Los Angeles could see a major earthquake ...

This article is part of Shaky Ground, a collaborative reporting project between the Carlsbad Current-Argus and KRWG Public Media. A group of fault lines sit underground near Van Horn, Texas, dating up ...

Stress accumulating in the southern San Andreas fault. (Burkhard et. al., J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 2026) It's called California's Big One for a reason. For more than a century, tectonic pressure ...

The fault lines presented builders with naturally occurring rock fragments, which were significantly easier to move around and build with. Natural block in Machu Picchu Mountain. The local network of ...