Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study reveals that the underlying geology is significantly more complex than current ...

Imagine a scenario where the Pacific Northwest gets pummeled by a magnitude nine earthquake, only to have California's most notorious fault line rupture hours or days later. Sounds like a disaster ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mendocino Triple Junction is the meeting point of three tectonic plates. Using data from tiny earthquakes, researchers propose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A series of moderate earthquakes rattled the waters off the West Coast early June 4 near the Mendocino Triple Junction, where ...

The work, by researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of California, Davis and the University of Colorado Boulder, is published in Science. "If we don't understand the underlying ...

It was a groundbreaking discovery. Scientists have found previously concealed fault lines along California's north coast, sparking concerns that we could be drastically underestimating the earthquake ...

Thursday's 7.0 magnitude earthquake, and more than a dozen subsequent quakes up to 5.8 strong, are the latest in a history of strong earthquakes off California's North Coast in Humboldt County.

A navigation error during a scientific study unearthed surprising and alarming evidence of massive linked faults along the west coast.

The Mendocino Triple Junction is the meeting point of three tectonic plates. Using data from tiny earthquakes, researchers at USGS, UC Davis and CU Boulder propose a new model for this seismic zone.

A series of moderate earthquakes rattled the waters off the West Coast early June 4 near the Mendocino Triple Junction, where three tectonic plates meet off Northern California's coast, one of the ...

Proposed model of the Mendocino Triple Junction. The Pacific plate is dragging the Pioneer fragment under the North American plate. Credit: David Shelly, USGS. By tracking swarms of very small ...