Did you feel them? A 4.2 earthquake struck near San Ramon Monday morning amid a string of over 30 temblors in the area, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in our planet's mantle, the layer sandwiched between the thin crust and Earth ...

Earthquakes often bring to mind images of destruction, of the Earth breaking open and altering landscapes. But after an earthquake, the area around it undergoes a period of post-seismic deformation, ...