CITYWIDE — It's a seismic year for Santa Monica. In the 20th year since the destructive Northridge Earthquake, city officials announced they would assess buildings that might need seismic upgrades and now the California Geological Survey (CGS) is mapping ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie Rowe of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the ...

HOLLYWOOD (KABC) -- A new finalized version of a California earthquake map shows an active fault line running through Hollywood, raising questions about the Millennium Hollywood development project. The fault line moves along the northern edge of Hollywood ...

DALLAS (SMU) - Scientists from SMU, The University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University found that the majority of faults underlying the Fort Worth Basin are as sensitive to forces that could cause them to slip as those that have hosted earthquakes ...

The California Geological Survey (CGS) is in the process of drawing up fault zones for the beachside city. The Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zones allow the state to regulate development built near faults. Santa Monica does not yet have one of these ...

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 Sagaing Fault, making it the longest continental ...