In an instant, a landslide can level a home or even an entire community. Landslides aren't always slow-moving, avoidable events. Debris flows — a dangerous combination of earth, debris and water that ...
Monday afternoon, a 5.8 earthquake centered 15 miles northeast of Yerington hit just after 3 p.m., rattling windows and nerves as far away as Sacramento and San Francisco. Aftershocks continued to be ...
For more than a month, the Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes — the latest in a series of seismic swarms that have rattled windows and raised fears across ...
The U.S. Geological Survey was still trying to unravel how an alert was sent Thursday morning for a nonexistent 5.9 earthquake outside Dayton, Nevada. A quake of that size wouldn't be implausible.