Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s ...

Tsunamis pose a risk to the entirety of the California coast. But should a major one strike, how bad could it be?

A near-certain disaster looms for California, but there are real things people can do to prepare. Here's what to know about ...

The Hollywood sign and the Golden Gate Bridge are among the iconic landmarks set to be wiped out by a huge earthquake when ...

New Madrid, Missouri, was terrorized by its fault line in the early 19th century, and earthquakes are still the region's ...

A Japanese court has ruled former executives at the utility managing the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ...

CBS News data shows 35% of homes in the Sacramento region could be at "major risk" of wildfire in the next 30 years.

Some experts now agree that the likelihood of the long-feared “Big One” striking has significantly increased between now and 2032. Sarah Minson, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), ...

By luck of geology, the Pacific Northwest coast isn’t being hit nearly as hard as other areas of the world by climate change-driven sea level rise. While the U.S. East Coast is expected to see roughly ...

An earthquake has struck California 's Bay Area right along a fault line experts now fear may be the surprise cause of the ...

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake shook the Northern California area, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The more than 9-mile deep quake hit a little over half a mile south of Concord at 12:11 p.m. on ...