In Malibu, dozens of beachfront homes were burned to the ground as a result of the Palisades fire, which destroyed a total of ...

The fault caused an increase of current on energized lines running parallel to the company’s inactive line in Eaton Canyon, where the blaze is thought to have started. SCE said the current surge ...

Whittier Boulevard is an iconic thoroughfare across L.A. County. But the state route hasn't been under the city of Whittier's ...

IT was a distressing spectacle, though a sadly predictable one. As the National Assembly took up for discussion the recent hijacking of the Jaffar Express and the brutal killing of several of its ...

By Adam Nossiter Jennifer Johnston, an admired Irish novelist whose precise, carefully woven fictions depicted historic fault lines in her country’s upper crust and frailties in its latter-day ...

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 ...

A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban ...

One of the “worst-case scenarios” with an epicenter in southeast Missouri, near Sikeston, would be the least disastrous of ...

Initially claiming there was no evidence its equipment was at fault, Southern California Edison is now investigating one of its “zombie” power lines as the possible origin of the deadly Eaton ...

The quake struck juts after 7:45 p.m. local time on Monday and was centered around the town of Dublin, according to the USGS.

Kolkata: Hours before the scheduled start of first semester B Tech examinations across seven engineering streams, multiple post-graduate courses and some supplementary examinations at Jadavpur ...