One person was rushed to the hospital after a rock slide in the westbound lanes of I-70 near Fall River Road on Thursday morning.

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A 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck San Diego County Monday morning, causing landslides and rockfalls in some areas, leading to ...

Americans have long lived in fear of the 'Big One' - an earthquake so enormous it would devastate the West Coast. The harrowing images of Thailand and Myanmar on Friday morning after a 7.7 magnitude ...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurred in northeastern San Diego County near Julian at 10:08 a.m. Monday, causing shaking that ...

A major earthquake in Myanmar on Friday has caused ... faults - cracks in the rock - form which allow tectonic plates to "slither" sideways. There is a major fault called the Sagaing fault ...

As Myanmar grapples with the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, a larger question looms—could this natural disaster foreshadow the collapse of the ruling military junta? The earthquake ...

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Over decades, as the plates grind past each other, tension builds up in the subsurface rock. When it finally gives, an earthquake is the result. Such strike-slip faults as they're known don't ...

As they count the cost of this massive earthquake, the people of Myanmar will be hoping for a silver lining, that the disaster may hasten the fall of their despised dictator. The catastrophe comes ...