A rarely seen 'doomsday' fish was found ashore on a Mexico beach, sparking fears of a looming disaster. Legend has it that the fish are harbingers of earthquakes and other natural disasters.

Weiqiang Zhu has been honored with the Seismological Society of America’s (SSA) 2025 Charles F. Richter Early Career Award ...

This year is the thirtieth anniversary of Japan’s Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. The Northridge Earthquake in Southern California happened just one year earlier, in 1994. The two events killed 6,400 ...

The wildfires sweeping through Los Angeles County communities have destroyed at least 10,000 homes so far and more are in the path of still-uncontrolled flames. Obviously the loss of so many ...

Ah, but — and you should remember this for “Jeopardy!” — the Golden State’s first documented gold strike happened here, in ...

A few minutes before 11 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5, Humboldt County residents were shaken up by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake ... By the afternoon, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Valerie Starkey was driving through Northern California to visit relatives ... the 75-year-old courthouse in downtown Eureka when he felt the quake. “We’re used to it. It is known ...

Cracks and damage to Shively Road outside Scotia, California earlier this month after a 7.0 earthquake hit off the coast near Eureka the day before (Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez/Getty Images ...

None of the Olympic venues have been damaged by the still-burning fires that tore through Pacific Palisades on the city’s ...

2.1M Earthquake 27 Kilometers West ... 3200 Block of INGLEY ST 4:34 p.m. EPD: EUREKA MUNICIPAL CODE VIOLATION — 2100 Block of CALIFORNIA ST 4:26 p.m. FoPD: CITIZEN CONTACT — 700 Block of ...